CAESAR, Cuthbert Stephen
| Service Number: | 1897 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 June 1915, 1 year Brisbane Militia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, December 1883 |
| Home Town: | Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 24 August 1950, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-64. 53. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1897, 17th Infantry Battalion, 1 year Brisbane Militia | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 1897, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 1897, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 26 Jul 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1897, 17th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
73 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 25th August 1950, Private Cuthbert Stephen Caesar, 17th Battalion (Reg No-1897), tailor from 104 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, New South Wales and 172 King Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and 75 Dumaresq Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. (1936) and 211 Kemp Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., father of five, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 66. CATHOLIC 2-64. 53.
Born at South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia about 1884 to Augustus and Mary Caesar; husband of Ellen Mary Caesar nee Lynch (married 1921, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 16.1.1979, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 89, sleeping here), Cuthbert enlisted on the 29th June 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A54 Runic on the 9th August 1915.
Admitted to hospital 8.11.1915 (dysentery), 13.12.1915 (pleurisy, pneumonia, dangerously ill), 9.3.1916 (bronchitis).
Cuthbert was invalided home on the 11th April 1916, being discharged medically unfit on the 26th July 1916.
Mr. Caesar’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 24/8/1950.
Officially commemorated 27.4.1951 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
I have placed poppies upon Cuthbert’s white marble Commonwealth War Graves headstone in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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