PROCTOR, Isaac Richard
| Service Number: | 2771 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Lithgow, Lithgow, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Mackie Academy, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 15 May 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lithgow War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2771, 54th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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| 7 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2771, 54th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Enlisted Lithgow, NSW.
He is one of three former pupils of Mackie Academy in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire who served with Australian forces and are remembered on the Honour Board there.
Mackie Academy is a now a secondary school in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. The school was founded in 1893 thanks to the generosity of a local merchant, William Mackie, who bequeathed money in his will to establish a school in Stonehaven.
Today, the feeder primary schools are Arduthie, Bervie, Catterline, Dunnottar, Glenbervie, Gourdon, Johnshaven, Kinneff, Lairhillock, and Mill O'Forest.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He appears to have been born in Penrith, N.S.W., but was educated in Scotland.