DUPREZ, Offord William
| Service Number: | 934 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Coolamon, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1896 |
| Home Town: | Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Lomotive Cleaner |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Egypt, 20 September 1916, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kantara War Memorial Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph |
World War 1 Service
| 21 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 934, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Newcastle embarkation_ship: HMAT Kabinga embarkation_ship_number: A58 public_note: '' | |
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| 21 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 934, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Kabinga, Newcastle | |
| 20 Sep 1916: | Involvement Trooper, 934, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 934 awm_unit: 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1916-09-20 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Offord William DUPREZ, (Service Number 934), was born on Boxing Day 1896 at Coolamon. He first worked for the NSW Railways as a call boy at Harden Locomotive Depot in January 1913 when he was just 16-years-old. Little more than a year later he had advanced to be a cleaner. In January 1915 he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces and this he did at Liverpool on the 18th of that month.
He left Australia through Newcastle aboard HMAT ‘Kabinga’ on 21 May 1915 as part of the 7th Light Horse Regiment. The Light Horse fought at Gallipoli, but as dismounted troops. Duprey joined the unit at Anzac on 28 August 1915 and remained for the rest of the campaign.
He received a gunshot wound to his head at Kantara on 17 September 1915 and died on 20 September.
Submitted 20 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Offord William DUPREZ (Service Number 934) was born on Boxing Day 1896 at Coolamon. He first worked for the NSW Railways as a call boy at Harden Locomotive Depot in January 1913 when he was just 16-years-old. Little more than a year later he had advanced to be a cleaner. In January 1915 he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces and this he did at Liverpool on the 18th of that month.
He left Australia from Newcastle aboard HMAT ‘Kabinga’ on 21st May 1915 as part of the 7th Light Horse Regiment. The Light Horse fought at Gallipoli, but as dismounted troops. Duprey joined the unit at Anzac on 28th August 1915 and stayed there for the rest of the campaign. At the end of the campaign he was hospitalised, sick. He was evacuated to Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos and then to Alexandria. He re-joined the unit at Maadi and marched out to Serapeum. In June he contracted Diphtheria and was transferred to the hospital ship ‘Niagara’.
He re-joined the unit in August and received a gunshot wound to his head at Kantara on 17th September 1915 and died on 20 September.
He was buried at the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, about 27 miles from Port Said on the east bank of the Suez Canal, Egypt, by Captain G E Wheeler, Chaplain.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board