MARR, David
| Service Number: | 1177 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Forth, Scotland, 5 July 1882 |
| Home Town: | Cessnock, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 9 September 1951, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium) No memorial at Newcastle Memorial Park. Unsure if part ashes reinterred at Sandgate Cemetery. PRESBYTERIAN-24NW. 55. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1177, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1177, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1177, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 14 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1177, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, discharged medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
74 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 10th September 1951, the ashes were interred at Beresfield Crematorium (Newcastle Memorial Park) of Private David Marr, 34th Battalion (Reg No-1177), miner from Hall and Regent Streets, Cessnock, New South Wales and 51 Hall Street, Cessnock, N.S.W. and 116 Railway Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., age 68.
Not married.
Ashes scattered in general plot. No memorial at Newcastle Memorial Park. Unsure if part ashes reinterred at Sandgate Cemetery. PRESBYTERIAN-24NW. 55.
Born at Forth, Scotland on the 5th July 1882 (place and date unconfirmed) to John, died 21.4.1940, Cessnock, N.S.W., age 83, and Annie Marr nee Pillans, died 11.12.1941, Cessnock, N.S.W., age 77, mother of 8, from Hall and Regent Streets, Cessnock, New South Wales and 51 Hall Street, Cessnock, N.S.W., Dave enlisted on the 11th January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 23.6.1916.
Granted leave to England from 28.9,1917 to 13.10.1917 and 18.3.1918 to 9.4.1918 and 14.9.1918 to 28.9.1918.
Admitted to hospital 5.7.1918.
Invalided to England 14.7.1918 (perichondritis, nose, septic rhinitis).
Commenced return to Australia 10.12.1918.
Dave arrived home invalided on the 14th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 10th May 1919.
Mr. Marr’s name has been inscribed on the Cessnock War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name possibly inscribed on the Cessnock Presbyterian Church Honour Board, whereabouts unknown.
I have placed poppies at the Marr gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Younger brother William Pillans, born 1.2.1890, Minmi, N.S.W., single weighman from Hall and Regent Streets, Cessnock, New South Wales, enlisted 12.10.1916, 36th Battalion, Reg No-2834, wounded in action - 26.7.1917 (GSW right leg), RTA 27.6.1919, 9th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, died 19.8.1968, Burwood, N.S.W., age 78, 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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