WAUGH, Ambrose
| Service Number: | 3739 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 April 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 56th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Northumberland, England, August 1875 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 30 July 1940, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-156. 41. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3739, 45th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 3739, 45th Infantry Battalion , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 3739, 45th Infantry Battalion , HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| 20 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3739, 56th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
83 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 1st August 1940, Private Ambrose Waugh, 56th Battalion (Reg No-3739), labourer and widower from 127 Little Denison Street, Carrington, New South Wales and Milton Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. and 157 Young Street, Carrington, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 62. ANGLICAN 3-156. 41.
Born at Northumberland, England about 1878 to James and Esther Waugh; husband of ? and Mary Ann (Polly) Waugh nee Turnbull (married 1919, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 1925, age?, sleeping at ANGLICAN 1-05. 72), Ambrose enlisted on the 4th April 1917 with the 45th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W. A report also stated that he tried enlisting 7 times before being accepted!
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A74 Marathon on the 10th May 1917.
Admitted to hospital 10.3.1918 (orchitis).
Wounded in action - 18.8.1918 (GSW right finger, shoulder and back).
Invalided to England 21.8.1918.
Ambrose returned home on the 2nd March 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 20th April 1919.
Mr. Waugh’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates and the Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor.
I have placed poppies at Ambrose’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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