KILPATRICK, Herbert Sydney
| Service Number: | 6079 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 October 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Saltia, South Australia, 17 May 1882 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Natural causes (heart failure on train journey), Perth, Western Australia, 19 June 1961, aged 79 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Boulder K.E.T. Workers Roll of Honor, Boyanup War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6079, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 12 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6079, 10th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6079, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6079, 10th Infantry Battalion, Polygon Wood | |
| 1 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6079, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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Herbert Sydney Kilpatrick was born on 5th of May 1882 and he was born and raised in Adelaide South Australia. Before embarkation Kilpatrick worked as a train conductor. He worked from the age of 20 and at the age of 27 was married to his fiancee at the time Mrs F M Kilpatrick. They lived an average life until the 5th of October 1915 when Kilpatrick enlisted to go to war. This was his second attempt to enlist, having previously discharged for bad conduct on 12th January 1915, the day he took the oath. He embarked on the 12th of August 1916 at the age of 33 years old on the HMAT Ballarat A70.
Kilpatrick joined his unit in France on 16th November 1916. He was repeatedly ill through the first half of 1917 but was then with the 10th Battalion in France and Belgium from June 1917 until the end of the war, with only a short period of leave in October 1917. This means he was present at many of the most intense battles of the war.
In 1961 Herbert Sydney Kilpatrick died on a train journey due to heart failure. When Kilpatrick died, he was the age of 79, so he survived long after the war but still had traumatic experiences. He died in his home town and was currently living in Saltia Brown Street, Brown Hill, which is positioned in South Australia on the western side of the Flinders Ranges about 279 kilometres north of the state capital of Adelaide and about 19 kilometres east of the city of Port Augusta. He was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery at Crematorium cemetery in Perth, W.A.
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