WOODS, John
| Service Number: | 560 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom, January 1876 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | stoker & fireman (engine driver) and hooker-on of cranes |
| Died: | Work - railway accident, Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 6 July 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-9SW. 34. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 560, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 560, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 560, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 9 Sep 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 560, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD (medically unfit - illness) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The tragic story of a Forgotten Digger of The Great War resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
103 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 8th July 1917, Private John Woods, 30th Battalion, stoker & fireman (engine driver) and hooker-on of cranes, father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 41. PRESBYTERIAN-9SW. 34.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134869686 - funeral notice does not state service.
Born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom or Kingsley, Norfolk, about 1876 to James and ? Woods; husband of Lillian (Lily) Ethel (Elizabeth) Woods nee Kennedy (married 3.7.1915, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1969?), John enlisted July 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 13.3.1916 (dysentery, dangerously ill), John returned home June 1916 and was discharged medically unfit 9th September 1916.
His name has been inscribed on the Newcastle Federated Engine-Drivers & Firemen's Association Honour Roll (unveiled on the 21st June 1917, whereabouts unknown).
Mr Woods died at 2 A.M. on the 6th July 1917 at the Newcastle Hospital from injuries received while working as a 'hooker-on' at the Railway Cranes, (The Dyke) Newcastle, N.S.W. (crushed between two buffers.)
The tragic circumstances of his death were reported - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122208640, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134860358
There is no headstone to tell us that Mr Woods served with the 1st A.I.F., now long forgotten, so December 2015 I placed a cross on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=8244#grave-photo-1
Lest We Forget.
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