SULLIVAN, Sydney John
| Service Number: | 6750 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Leichhardt. New South Wales, Australia, 3 May 1887 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor, Manufacturing Chemist |
| Died: | Illness, France, 14 October 1918, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 6750, 8th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 6750, 8th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 14 Oct 1918: | Involvement Private, 6750, 3rd Australian General Hospital, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 6750 awm_unit: No. 3 Australian General Hospital awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-10-14 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Sydney John SULLIVAN (Service Number 6750) was born on 3rd May 1887 at Leichhardt, Sydney. He was a casual conductor on the Sydney Trams from 10th March 1914. He was granted leave to join the Military Forces on 31st May 1915. He had enlisted at Liverpool a week before he was granted leave. He also gave as his ‘trade or calling’ that he was a ‘Manufacturing Chemist’. He gave his wife Jessie May, living at Rockdale as his next of kin, claimed six months’ military service in the Welsh Special Reserve and two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was allotted to the 8th Field Ambulance.
He left Australia on board HMAT ‘Ascanius’ from Sydney on 10th November 1915. On 17th June 1916 he embarked from Alexandria aboard ‘Transylvania’ for passage to join the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France, passing through Marseilles on 23rd June.
In August he was charged with the crime of Conduct to the prejudice of Good Order and Military Discipline in that he took & used for the purpose of carrying bricks one water proof sheet thereby damaging same. For this offence he was given three days Field Punishment No. 2 with one hour’s pack drill each day.
In November 1916 he was admitted to the 1st New Zealand Hospital with bronchitis and then transferred to the 1st Australian General Hospital, the Ambulance Train, the Hospital Ship ‘Wandilla’ for evacuation to England and the 2nd Street General Hospital. By the time he had recovered and regained his fitness it was May 1917 before he could resume duty in France. About a year of good health followed until he was admitted to hospital with PUO (Pyrexia of Uncertain Origin) in May or July 1918.
In July he was AWL and given three days Field Punishment No. 2 and the loss of four days’ pay. On 2nd August he was admitted to hospital again with PUO and again in October. He died of Broncho Pneumonia at the 3rd Australian General Hospital at Abbeville on 14th October 1918.
Sullivan was buried with full military honours at the Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.