WARREN, Urban Guy
| Service Number: | 1385 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 November 1914, 3rd Reinforcement |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stanley St Norwood South Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Norwood Model School, Norwood High School, Marsden College, South Australia |
| Occupation: | clerk |
| Died: | Gunshot wound to the head, Bullecourt France, 11 April 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers Brettoneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide High School Great War Honour Board, Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kent Town Wesleyan Methodist Church WW1 Honour Roll, Norwood Primary School Honour Board, Norwood War Memorial, Port Adelaide Railway Clerical Staff Pictorial Honor Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1385, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), 3rd Reinforcement | |
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| 19 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 1385, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 1385, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 12 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 48th Infantry Battalion, Doubling of the AIF - Tel el Kebir Egypt | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 48th Infantry Battalion | |
| 11 Apr 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 1385, 48th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1385 awm_unit: 48 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-04-11 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Warren Urban Guy (parents unknown) lived at 34 Beulah Rd, Norwood. He had 1 other known sibling John Warren who was his next of kin. Guy was a clerk who has also served as a cadet under his majesty's army for 18 months enlisted in the army when he was 19 years and 9/12 months old (date of birth unknown) on the 30th of November 1914. Guy was assigned to the 16th Infantry Battalion and was later sent to the 48th Infantry Battalion with his service number being B2455.
Guy enlisted 30th November 1914 at the age of 19 years and 9/12 months. Guy embarked to Melbourne on the HMAT Runic and arrived at Gallipoli to help fight but he later got sick (Diphtheria, excessive mucous in the nose and throat) and was in hospital for over 6 months. When he later rejoined, he was moved from the 48th Infantry Battalion to the 16th Infantry Battalion. Sadly, on his first battle back he was sent to Bullecourt to fight in the first battle, where he was initially reported as missing, but later that day he was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head while trapped on barbed wire.
The only other person we know in his family is his brother John Warren who is his next in kin, we also don’t know where he was buried. Because Guys body was not found there is a chance that he was one of the 200 soldiers buried at Bullecourt. The grave would often have up to 30 dead soldiers and then covered up and unmarked.
Lest we Forget
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