DUKES, Cecil Mervyn
| Service Number: | 340 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, NSW, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Penrith, Penrith Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Shunter |
| Memorials: | Penrith S P School Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 340, 4th Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 340, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 340, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of W H Dukes, Lemongrove, Penrith, New South Wales
Private Cecil Dukes, wounded at the Dardanelles is a native of Penrith. He worked at Eskbank railway station for about four years prior to enlisting, and was a well known forward in the old Railway Football Club. In a letter to his parents he tells how he received his wounds. "The battlefield was littered with dead and wounded, and it would make your heart ache. At 7.30p.m. one shrapnel shell burst alongside me, wounding a few. The next followed in a few minutes, and burst right oyer my head, and I fell a victim to its deadly pellets. I was wounded in the foot, and the man on my left had his shoulder shattered by the same shell."
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