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RALPH, Benjamin Edwin
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 462 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia, 16 December 1894 |
| Home Town: | Toodyay, Toodyay, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Morley, Western Australia, Australia, 16 September 1979, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Garden of Remembrance EC Section, Garden 23,Position 0128 |
| Memorials: |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 17 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 462, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 462, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Surada, Fremantle | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Honoured Military Medal, Military Medal, 26 November 1917 Commonwealth Gazette No 120, dated 7 August 1918 ‘His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Military Medal to Lance Corporal B E Ralph’ | |
| 6 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 462 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Jacquie Liddiard
Wounded on 29 August 1915 at Hill 60 Gallipoli with bomb blast to his back and shoulder. Reported as wounded again on 27 March 1917 but remained on duty with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
Transferred to 3rd ANZAC Battalion, Imperial Camel Bridge on 11 November 1916 and after it was disbanded was posted to 15th Australian Light Horse Regiment.
Ben married Marjory Sarah Dean Moody on 14 May 1923 in Northam, Western Australia. They had 3 children.
Living in Northam in March 1967, when applying for his ANZAC Memorial Medallion.
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