BEZZANT, Richard Charles
| Service Number: | 17 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 16 November 1898 |
| Home Town: | Deepwater, Glen Innes Severn, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Merewether Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 14 October 1917, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kurri Kurri War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Merewether Public School Roll of Honour, Newcastle Stallard Family Pictorial Roll of Honour, Sawyers Gully Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 17, 33rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 17, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 17, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 14th October 1917, Private Richard Charles Bezzant, referred to as Ritchie and Bert, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-17), sheep farmer and grazier from "Brush Grove", Deepwater, New South Wales, was Killed in Action during the 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 18. Cause of death not stated.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 16th November 1898 to Egbert Charles (died 16.6.1927, Fettercairn Private Hospital, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 60) and Ada Bezzant nee John, mother of 3 (died 1.4.1928, Deepwater, N.S.W., age 56).
Ritchie enlisted on the 7th December 1915 at Armidale, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A74 Marathon on the 4th May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 3.9.1916 (ingrown toenails).
Wounded in action - 27.7.1917 (GSW, slight, not specified).
Ritchie’s name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium.
Place of Association – Deepwater, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Bezzant’s name has also been inscribed on the Merewether Public School Roll of Honour, Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Stallard Pictorial Roll of Honour, Sawyers Gully Memorial Gates, Kurri Kurri War Memorial, Merewether (Glebe) Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Newcastle & District Boy Scouts Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Bezzant gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of Ritchie for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 14 NW. 31.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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