Eric George SNEESBY MID

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SNEESBY, Eric George

Service Number:	547
Enlisted:	21 July 1915
Last Rank:	Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant
Last Unit:	30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Dungog, New South Wales, Australia, February 1893
Home Town:	Mayfield, Waratah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Newcastle South Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Grocery packer
Died:	Car accident, Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 27 January 1931
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-134. 83.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

21 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 547, 30th Infantry Battalion
9 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 547, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: ''
9 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 547, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney
23 May 1919:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Excellent service from February to Sept 1918 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 23 May 1919 on page 880 at position 8
13 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 547, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, died tragically, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

92 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 28th January 1931, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Eric George Cross Sneesby, 30th Battalion (M.I.D, Reg No-547), grocery packer and sales manager (D.Mitchell & Co., Ltd., Newcastle, N.S.W.) from 8 Carrington Street, Mayfield, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 37. ANGLICAN 2-134. 83. Not married.

Born at Dungog, New South Wales about 1894 to Walter James and Bermuda Annie J Sneesby, Eric enlisted July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 8.10.1916 (tonsilitis).

Proceeded to England on leave from the 29.12.1916 to the 7.1.1917.

Mentioned in Despatches 31.12.1918.

Eric returned home on the 20th August 1919, being discharged on the 13th October 1919.

Mr. Sneesby’s name has been inscribed on the Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour.

The tragic circumstances of Eric’s death were widely reported. He died in a car crash (overturned) on Lake Road, Warners Bay.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the gravesite in remembrance of Eric’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Service record states Died after Discharge.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

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