WADE, Andrew Elzear
| Service Number: | 10550 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 4 February 1891 |
| Home Town: | Waratah, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Telegraphist |
| Died: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 13 June 1932, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-22. 5. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 10550, 3rd Divisional Signal Company | |
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| 25 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 10550, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 10550, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 18 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 10550, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, 2nd MD, 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.
92 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 15th June 1932, Sapper Andrew Elzear (also spelt Elzer, Elijar) Wade, 3rd Australian Division Signals Company (Reg No-10550), telegraphist (N.S.W. Commissioners' Telegraph Department, Newcastle Railway Station), from 23 Tighe Street, Waratah, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 41. CATHOLIC 1-22. 5. Never married.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 4th February 1891 to Andrew James, died 24.3.1919, Wickham, N.S.W., age 57, from 23 Tighe Street, Waratah, New South Wales, and Agnes M Wade, died 26.4.1925, Waratah, N.S.W., age 65, from 23 Tighe Street, Waratah, New South Wales, Andrew enlisted on the 25th January 1916 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on the 25th May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 25.8.1917 (influenza), 28.10.1917 (gas poisoning, mild), 9.11.1918 (influenza).
Wounded in action - 19.10.1917 (gassed, mild).
Commenced return to Australia 11.5.1919.
Admitted to hospital as sea 30.5.1919 (not stated).
Andrew arrived home invalided on the 27th June 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 18th August 1919.
Mr. Wade’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Andrew’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 “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget
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