Cecil Charles Kemble JAGGAR

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JAGGAR, Cecil Charles Kemble

Service Number:	1852
Enlisted:	1 March 1916
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	39th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 21 November 1884
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Hamilton, New Zealand, 26 January 1954, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Hamilton Park Cemetery and Crematorium (NZ)
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World War 1 Service

1 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1852, 39th Infantry Battalion
16 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 1852, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
16 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 1852, 39th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
17 Sep 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Driver, 39th Infantry Battalion, France
2 Dec 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 1852, 39th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for RTA on board HT Shropshire with wife
15 Mar 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1852, 39th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Driver Cecil Charles Kemble Jaggar (Service No:1852) served in the AIF with 39th Infantry Battalion from 1 March 1916 to 15 March 1920. Promoted from Private to Driver in France on 17 September 1918, he embarked from England for the RTA accompanied by his wife on board HT Shropshire on 2 December 1919.

Cecil was born in 1884 in Hay NSW, third of six children on Leonard (Len) Rose Jaggar (b1858 in Canterbury, New Zealand) and Fanny Ada Kemble (b1860 in Wellington, New Zealand). Len (an Insurance Clerk) and Fanny married in 1881 in Wellington, New Zealand and lived in Brisbane QLD, Sydney NSW and Melbourne Victoria where Len was a General Manager and Attorney for Insurance Companies and was appointed a Justice of the Peace and Magistrate of the Colony.

Cecil worked in New Zealand in the early 1900s as a Mechanic and was a Farm Hand at Dromana in Victoria when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916. In 1919 in Northamptonshire, England Cecil married Hettie Mary Russell (b1892 in Northamptonshire, England) - Hettie was working as a Refreshment Room Assistant. In 1919 Hettie returned with Cecil to Melbourne where he worked as a Labourer before they moved to Hamilton, New Zealand in 1928. Cecil worked as a Farm Hand, Labourer and Railway Worker in Hamilton NZ. Cecil died in 1954 and Hettie in 1974.

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