EGGENTON, Samuel
| Service Number: | 72 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Staffordshire, Brierley, England , March 1883 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Iron worker (B.H.P. Steelworks) |
| Died: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 15 June 1949, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-28. 110. |
| Memorials: | Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 72, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 72, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 72, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 12 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 72, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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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.
76 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 17th June 1949, Private Samuel Eggenton, 35th Battalion (Reg No-72), iron worker (B.H.P. Steelworks), from Gipps Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 17 Robertson Street, Carrington, N.S.W. and Mathieson Street, Carrington, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 76?. ANGLICAN 1-28. 110.
Surname can be misspelt EGGINTON.
Born at Staffordshire, Brierley, England about March?, April? 1873? to Samuel and Prudence Eggenton; husband of Sarah Ann Eggenton nee Lawrie, married?, died 18.12.1922, Newcastle, N.S.W. as EGGERTON, buried on the 19.12.1922, no funeral or death notice, sleeping at ANGLICAN 1-80. 15, unmarked grave, Sam enlisted on the 4th August 1915, age 42 years 4 months, at Newcastle, N.S.W. (unfit, teeth).
Re-enlisted on the 11th January 1916, age 42 years 9 months, at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 9.7.1916.
Admitted to hospital 7.4.1917 (defective vision), 6.9.1918 (dysentery).
Wounded in action - 12.10.1917 (GSW left arm, fracture, face, 1st Battle of Passchendaele).
Invalided to England 14.10.1917.
Granted leave to England from 8.12.1917 to 20.12.1917 and 27.1.1919 to 10.2.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 11.5.1919.
Sam arrived home on the 28th June 1919, being discharged on the 12th August 1919.
Mr. Eggenton’s name has not been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates and the Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor.
Sam’s name has not been inscribed at the gravesite, probably another Forgotten Digger of The Great War, and I am unable to place a cross, so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label 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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