MEEK, Cyril Wallace
| Service Number: | 310 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 August 1914, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wyndham, 23 September 1892 |
| Home Town: | Wyndham, Bega Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Eden Public School |
| Occupation: | Postal assistant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Lone Pine Plot 3 Row B Grave 24 , Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey, Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 310, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 310, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 310, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 310, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Cyril was the son of Flora (nee Cameron) and Vincent Meek a policeman who was stationed within various places in the Bega Valley from 1884 to 1912. He attended Eden Public School with his siblings and was then employed as postal assistant at the Eden Post Office where he worked for 2 years. He was promoted and transferred to Waverley PO Branch in Feb 1910. The Townspeople presented him with a purse of sovereigns and the postal staff a fountain pen. He served 2 years with the militia in Paddington.
He enlisted with his brothers and their enlistment numbers were Cyril 310, Darcy 311 and Lance 312. They all embarked for Egypt and the training camp on the HMAT A23 Suffolk on 18th Oct 1914. The 2nd Battalion which they were all, in landed on Gallipoli on 25th April 1915 and Cyril was wounded between 25-28th April and transferred back to Cairo hospital for treatment. By 13th July 1915 he had again rejoined his unit in Gallipoli and was killed in action between the 7th and 14th August. He was buried at Brown's Dip North Cemetery Gallipoli and then reinterred at Lone Pine Cemetery in Plot 3, Row B, Grave 24.
On 12th September 1915 a memorial service was held in All Saint's Church in memory of Private FC Brown and CW Meek.
Cyril's brother Lance also died overseas, on 6th November at Passchendale and is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery. Their brother Darcy returned to Australia in September 1919.
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