WORTHINGTON, Austin
| Service Number: | 1265 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 27 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Crane driver (The Dyke, Carrington, N.S.W.) |
| Died: | Hamilton, , New South Wales Australia , 5 November 1940, aged 48 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-39. 21. |
| Memorials: | Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1265, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1265, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 13 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1265, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 4 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1265, 36th 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.
85 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 6th November 1940, Corporal Austin Donald Worthington, 36th Battalion (Reg No-1265), crane driver (The Dyke, Carrington, N.S.W.), from Howden Street, Carrington, New South Wales and West Maitland, N.S.W. (1926) and 9 Eva Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., father of four (John Leonard, born 4.9.1912, Wickham, N.S.W., served 2nd A.I.F., Service No-NX45793, Veronica O, born 1914, Wickham, N.S.W., Maria J, born 1920, Wickham, N.S.W., Bernard P, born 1922, Merewether, N.S.W.), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 48. CATHOLIC 2-39. 21.
Born at Goulburn, New South Wales on the 27th November 1891 to Patrick Joseph, died 16.4.1937, Bathurst, N.S.W., age 83, buried at Bathurst Cemetery, from 146a Piper Street, Bathurst, N.S.W. and 113 Keppel Street, Bathurst, N.S.W., and Margaret Worthington nee Coughlan, died 17.5.1926, Bathurst, N.S.W., age 78, mother of 8, sleeping at Bathurst Cemetery, from 146a Piper Street, Bathurst, N.S.W.; husband of Annie Veronica Worthington nee Scully, married 1911, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 9.8.1961, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 75, 20 years a widow, sleeping here, Austin enlisted on the 25th February 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 13th May 1916.
Disembarked Devonport, England 9.7.1916.
Promoted Corporal 18.2.1917.
Admitted to hospital 4.3.1917 (scabies), 31.10.1918 (appendicitis).
Wounded in action - 5.6.1917 (GSW right foot, accidental), 19.4.1918 (gassed, Villers-Bretonneux, northern France).
Granted leave to England from 23.1.1918 to 10.2.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 5.4.1919.
Austin arrived home on the 21st May 1919, being discharged on the 4th July 1919.
Mr. Worthington’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates, Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor, Tighes Hill Pride of Ferndale Lodge, No. 1845, G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137103391, and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Austin’s gravesite 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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