WITHERS, Joseph Vincent
| Service Number: | 1579 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia, 18 May 1888 |
| Home Town: | West Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 8 September 1956, aged 68 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-71. 52. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1579, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 23 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1579, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 23 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1579, 6th Light Horse Regiment, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney | |
| 24 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1579, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, 2nd MD, Medically unfit |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
67 years ago today, on the 10th September 1956, Driver Joseph Vincent Withers, 2nd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column (Reg No-1579), labourer from West Tamworth, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 68. CATHOLIC 2-71. 52.
Born at West Maitland, New South Wales on the 18th May 1888 as WEITHERS to Joseph Vincent and Margaret Mary Withers of Tamworth, New South Wales; husband of Eileen Withers nee Hagan (married 1919, Barraba, N.S.W., died?), Joe enlisted on the 22nd September 1915 with the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment at Narrabri, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT SS Hawkes Bay on the 23rd October 1915.
Admitted to hospital 1.3.1917 (bronco pneumonia, dangerously ill).
Embarked for England 17.3.1917.
Admitted to hospital 18.3.1917 (pleurisy).
Embarked for return to Australia 28.8.1917.
Joe was invalided home on the 24th October 1917, being discharged medically unfit (chronic bronchitis, haemoptysis and pyrexia, pyopneumothorax - pleural collection of pus and gas) on the 24th November 1917.
Mr. Withers’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not located inscribed on any known Tamworth War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Joe’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states DIED 8/9/1956.
Officially commemorated 21.2.1957.
Younger brother James Stanley (born 17.3.1890, West Maitland, New South Wales, labourer from West Maitland, New South Wales and 26 Clara Street, Mayfield East, N.S.W., enlisted 15.3.1916, 33rd Battalion, Reg No-1610A, RTA 16.5.1919, 53rd Battalion, died 14.6.1945, age 55, resting at the cemetery, CATHOLIC 2-64.
Younger brother Michael Augustine (M.M., born 19.4.1894, Tamworth, New South Wales as WEITHERS, labourer from Tamworth, New South Wales, enlisted 18.9.1915, Reg No-1578, 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, awarded Military Medal 30.10.1917, wounded in action - 4.10.1918 (gassed), RTA invalided 6.6.1919, 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade, 10th Howitzer Battery, died 5.8.1945, West Maitland, N.S.W., age 50, resting at Campbells Hill Cemetery.
Younger brother Clarence Septimus (born 4.9.1898, Tamworth, New South Wales, labourer from West Tamworth, New South Wales, enlisted 27.12.1915, (discharged, underage), reenlisted 17.4.1916, 33rd Battalion, Reg No-1615, RTA 14.2.1919, 53rd Battalion, died 15.7.1955, age 56, resting at the cemetery, CATHOLIC 2-67.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
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