CARPENTER, John Lawrence
| Service Number: | 4263 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 October 1916, Adelaide South Australia Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Angaston South Australia Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Angaston, Barossa, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shop Assistant |
| Memorials: | Angaston District WW1 Roll of Honour, Angaston Methodist Church & Sunday School WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide South Australia Australia | |
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| 7 Nov 1916: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 4263, 32nd Infantry Battalion, embarkation_roll: roll_number: 17 embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: |
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| 7 Nov 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4263, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 13 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, 4263, 32nd Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 4263, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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An 18 year old shop assisstant from Angaston, piror to enlistment, John Carpenter embarked at Adelaide on the 7th of November 1916 on HMAT Afric (A19) with the 11th Rienforcements, 32nd Battalion. He spent a short stint in the ship's hopsitial before reaching England where he underwent additional training. Whilst with the 8th Training Battalion in the Salisbury Plains he was amitted to hospitial with Bronchitis and returned to training in March, 1917 after spending over a month in hospitial.
Following his training at Codford he proceeded to france where he joined the 32nd battalion on the 22nd of November, 1917 near Flanders.
Capenter was accidently injuged in a training accident in mid December 1917 and spent the Chrisitmas and New Year of 1917 in hospitial only been discharged in ealry January 1918.
He had a relatively peaceful rest of 1918 until the 32nd Battalion participated in its last major action on the Western Front at St Quentin Canal which occured during the so called, 'Last Hundred Days' campagin.
Private John Capenter was Wounded in Action on the 30th of September, 1918 during the Battle of St Quentin Canal and was taken to the nearby 48th Casuality Clearing Station. He had sustained gun shot wounds to his head, hand, arm and chest. On the 6th of October he was evacuated to England and on the 7th was taken to hospitial at Sutton Veny in the Salisbury Plains. By almost sheer luck, however, on the 19th of November, 1918 when fighting on the Western Front had stopped all of his wounds were healing well.
He was taken back to Australia before been discharged from the army as then medically unfit on the 13th of August 1919.
He was left with a scaring on his left shoulder and his head. His right hand also had the third and fourth fingers amputated and he had three less teeth than usual after they had been blown apart.
He contuined living at Angaston in Barossa Valley.