Herbert Wilson WARDROP

WARDROP, Herbert Wilson

    Service Number: 2444
    Enlisted: 19 September 1914
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 8th Field Ambulance
    Born: Dunedin, New Zealand, 1888
    Home Town: Malvern, Stonnington, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Theatrical line
    Died: Cerebral Ischaemia, Bilateral Carotid Stenosis and Diabetes , Dromana, Victoria, Australia, 11 September 1968
    Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
    Cremated, ashes placed at cemetery location Brind, Wall Q, Niche 337
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    World War 1 Service

    19 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2444, 10th Australian Army Service Corps
    20 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 2444, 1st Australian Reserve Park, HMAT Armadale, Melbourne
    20 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 2444, 1st Australian Reserve Park, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: Attached from the AMC
    11 May 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2444, 10th Australian Army Service Corps, Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli Verbal orders from army headquarters - for duty with AAMC
    20 Jun 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2444, 5th Divisional Train, Embarked Alexandria, Egypt to join BEF per "Caledonia". 24 June, 1916 held up in Malta due to enemy submarine activity. Disembarked Marseilles, France 29 June, 1916 for entrainment to Abbeville.
    6 Oct 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 8th Field Ambulance, 8th Field Ambulance was based at Armentieres at this time.
    15 Apr 1918: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2444, 8th Field Ambulance, HMAT A74 Marathon, as a condition of returning home on two months furlough, was on AIF staff duty on board ship. Disembarked Melbourne 12 June, 1918.
    13 Aug 1918: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2444, 8th Field Ambulance, Discharged as medically unfit for further military service due to neurasthenia/shell shock. Received the Star, British War and Victory Medals

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