MEADE, Victor Harold
| Service Number: | 6292 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, January 1892 |
| Home Town: | Glebe, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Wounds, Richmond Military Hospital, Grove Rd, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, 11 May 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Birmingham (Yardley) Cemetery Row B, Grave No. 24277, Yardley Cemetery, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6292, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6292, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6292, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6292, 13th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First), GSW to right thigh DOW England |
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The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 11th May…… Private Victor Harold Meade was born at Geelong, Victoria in 1892.
The 1901 & 1911 England Censuses recorded Victor living with his family at Birmingham. Victor had attended school in Birmingham, England.
Victor Meade, aged 24, born Australia, was listed as crew – Passage Worker on board Medic which had departed from the port of Genoa, Italy & arriving in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 24th April, 1916.
On 8th May, 1916 Victor Meade enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a 24 year old, single, Carpenter & Joiner from 265 Glebe Road, Glebe, NSW.
According to information supplied by his father – Joseph Meade, for the Roll of Honour, Victor Meade had served in the Police Force at Shanghai, China. He had voluntarily left the Shanghai Police Force to proceed to Australia to enlist. Victor Meade was with Shanghai Municipal Police from 1913 to 1916. Victor Meade stated on his Attestation Papers that he had served 4 years with Territorials.
Private Victor Harold Meade, Service number 6292, embarked from Sydney on HMAT Euripides (A14) on 9th September, 1916 & disembarked at Plymouth, England on 26th October, 1916.
Reinforcements were only given basic training in Australia. Training was completed in training units in England. Some of these were located in the Salisbury Plain & surrounding areas in the county of Wiltshire.
He was marched in to 4th Training Brigade at Codford, Wiltshire, from Wareham on 4th November, 1916.
On 16th January, 1917 Private Meade proceeded overseas for France from Codford via Folkestone on Princess Victoria. He was marched in from England at Etaples, France on 17th January, 1917 to 4th A.D.B.D. (Australian Divisional Base Depot) & joined 13th Battalion in France on 21st January, 1917.
Private Victor Harold Meade was wounded in action in France on 11th April, 1917. He was taken to 13th Australian Field Ambulance then admitted to Casualty Clearing Station with bullet wounds to groin. Private Meade was transferred from 49th Casualty Clearing Station to 16 Ambulance Train on 11th April, 1917. He was admitted to 10th General Hospital at Rouen on 16th April, 1917 with gunshot wounds to right thigh.
Private Meade was transferred on 27th April, 1917 to Hospital Ship Western Australia which embarked from Rouen for England.
According to information supplied by his father – Joseph Meade, for the Roll of Honour, Victor Meade was wounded at Bullecourt.
He was admitted to Richmond Military Hospital, Surrey, England on 28th April, 1917 with a gunshot wound to right thigh.
Private Victor Harold Meade died at 6.25 pm on 11th May, 1917 at Richmond Military Hospital, Grove Rd, Surrey from wounds received in action in France (Gunshot wound to thigh) and from Septic Pneumonia. His mother – Mrs L. Meade was in Hong King at the time of her son’s death & was being notified of the death by cable from Headquarters.
He was buried in Yardley Cemetery, Birmingham on 15th May, 1917 in Plot number 27429E. His body was exhumed & reinterred in Plot number B. 24277 on 22nd June, 1917.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/yardley.html
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