KENT, Norman Archibald
| Service Number: | 1009 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Narre Warren, Victoria, Australia, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Narre Warren, Casey, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 12 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Favreuil British Cemetery Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 16 |
| Memorials: | Narre Warren Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1009, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1009, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1009, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 1 Dec 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
| 3 Apr 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Mar 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 14th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Rankin
Norman was a Galiipoli veteran. Norman was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on the 20th of January 1917.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Norman was born in 1882, in Narre Warren and attended the local state school. By the time he reached the age of 32 Norman was working as a farmer on the land.
Norman, signed up as a private on 1 October 1914 in the 14th Battalion. He served at Gallipoli after which he was hospitalised with pleurisy in May 1915.
His older brother, 3336 Lce. Cpl. Alfred Ernest Kent 6th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in France, 5 May 1916, at the age of 41.
Less than two years later, after being transferred to the Western Front, Norman was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for “continuous meritorious performance of duty under most adverse circumstances at Pozieres from 6 August to 13 August and from 26 August to 30 August 1916”.
Norman Archibald Kent died from a gunshot wound to the chest he sustained at Bullecourt on 12 April 1917. He passed away in a Field Ambulance only hours after being wounded.
He was buried at the Vaulx Main Dressing Station, one and a quarter mile north-east of Bapaume, France.
On his tombstone were inscribed the words “Son of A.B. and M.A. Kent Narre Warren, died for King and Country”.
Another brother, 237 Private Charles Edward Kent served with the 3rd Pioneer Battalion AIF and was returned to Australia on the authority of the GOC AIF, Sir William Birdwood, due to the death of his two brothers, in April 1918.