CHERRY, Sydney James
| Service Numbers: | 105, 3350 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Thanes Creek via Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 4 May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Drayton, Queensland, Australia, 7 May 1963, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW1, Warwick War Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 105, 2nd/31st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 3350, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 9 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 3350, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney | |
| 20 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3350, 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance, embarked Kantara for Melbourne on board Morvada | |
| 29 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3350, 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Sydney James Cherry (Service Nos:105/452/1726/3350) initially enlisted in the AIF on 9 August 1915 with 2/31st Infantry Battalion, and was in hospital in Melbourne when his Unit embarked. Private Cherry re enlisted at Frasers Hill in Brisbane on 12 December 1915 with 31st and then 41st Infantry Battalions, and on 29 March 1916 was 'Declared under Army Act 72 to be a Deserter'. On 27 February 1917, Private Cherry re enlisted, and was a Trooper attached to 2nd Light Horse Regiment 28th Reinforcement on 9 May 1917 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for Suez on board HMAT A15 Port Sydney. Private Cherry embarked from Kantara for Melbourne on 20 July 1919 on board HT Morvada, and was attached to 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance at Discharge on 29 September 1919.
Sid was born at Thanes Creek via Warwick, QLD in 1893, fifth of fourteen children of William Henry Cherry (b1864 in Windsor, Hawkesbury City, New South Wales) and Mary Ann Eldridge (b1870 in London, England). May Ann immigrated with her parents and siblings irn 1874, arriving in Moreton Bay on board the Great Britain. William was a Labourer in 1886 when he and Mary married in Warwick. The couple lived in Killarney, at Thanes Creek and Rosenthral, in Toowoomba and Warwick where they raised their family. William worked as a Labourer, Drover (across the Southern QLD/Northern NSW region) and was a Farmer. Three sons enlisted in WWI (William Jn enlisted as a Trooper with 15th Light Horse Regiment but was found Medically Unfit in 1915; Sid and Percy) and two sons (Les and Eric) served in WWII.
Sid worked in the Warwick region as a Labourer, Kangaroo Shooter and Mill Hand before enlisting in the AIF. Following his Discharge from the Army, Sid worked in Toowoomba as a Labourer, and in 1921 married Gladys Mary Cumner (b1900 in Pittsworth, Darling Downs, QLD). The couple settled in Toowommba (apart from a short period in Brisbane in the late 1920s), where they raised their family and Sid was a Labourer before joining the Postmaster Generals Department as a Lineman. Sid died in 1963 and Gladys in 1996.
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