MARZOL, Luke Matthew
| Service Number: | 5626 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 April 1916, Enlisted at Cootamundra. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Yass, New South Wales, Australia, 27 August 1893 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway fettler |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Remembered on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5626, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Cootamundra. | |
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| 9 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 5626, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 5626, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 17 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5626, 18th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First), Wound to hand. Back on duty eight days later. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Luke Matthew MARZOL (Service Number 5626) was born on 27th August 1893 at Yass. He first worked for the NSW Government Railways in the Permanent Way Branch as a labourer in the Southern Division from 3rd August 1914. In March the next year he was designated a fettler on the section between Lockhart and Clear Hills, and the next month, Culcairn to Corowa. He was given leave to join the Expeditionary Forces on 31st March 1916.
Marzol enlisted at Cootamundra on 3rd April 1916, and being single, gave his father, John Mark Marzol, living at Tumut, as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 18th Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Euripides’ at Sydney on 9th September 1916, reaching Plymouth (England) on 26th October. After further training in England he proceeded overseas to France on 4th February 1917 and joined the Battalion on 10th February.
On 17th April he received a wound to his hand but was back on duty eight days later. He became missing in action on 3rd May and this was confirmed as killed in action eight months later by a Court of Enquiry.
Sam Wood (5679) reported:
‘Sergt Blight told me that he saw Marzol lying in a shell-hole during the attack on Bullecourt on May 3rd, badly wounded in the thigh. We had to retreat at the time. I have since received a registered parcel from Le Havre containing a razor and other articles enclosed in a red box marked with my name. These I had given to Marzol, but I do not know who sent them back to me or how they were obtained.’
Marzol has no known grave and is remembered at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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