CUDMORE, Collier Robert
| Service Numbers: | Officer , Commissioned Officer no SN |
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| Enlisted: | 11 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
| Born: | Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia , 4 June 1885 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | St Peter's College, University of Adelaide, and Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupation: | Lawyer, Politician |
| Died: | Natural Causes, North Adelaide, South Australia, 16 May 1971, aged 85 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Members of the Legal Profession & Students at Law WW1 Honour Board, Adelaide North Adelaide Cycling Club Roll of Honor, Adelaide Rowing Club WW1 Pictorial Honour Board, Glen Osmond St Saviour's Anglican Church Memorial Stained Glass Windows & Plaques, Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Aug 1915: | Enlisted Officer , Unspecified British Units | |
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| 8 Aug 1918: | Involvement Major, Commissioned Officer no SN, Unspecified British Units, "The Last Hundred Days", Royal Artillery Western Front |
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Collier Robert Cudmore was one of many Australians who for a range of reasons, often because they were in the UK when war broke out, enlisted in the British Army during WW 1. He was a lawyer and politician born in 1885 in NSW and educated in Adelaide, South Australia. He won a gold medal in rowing as a member of the British four at the 1908 Olympic Games. Commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve in France on 11 August 1915, he commanded a battery and was twice severely wounded. During World War 2 he was a battalion commander in the Australian Volunteer Defence Corps and chairman of the Australian War Service League He was knighted in 1958 and died in 1971 in North Adelaide.
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