SLAVIN, Geoge
| Service Number: | 1695 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Minmi, New South Wales, Australia, 12 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | West Wallsend, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | West Wallsend Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Monterey, New South Wales, Australia, 21 January 1977, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales Ashes interred Woronora Memorial Park, N.S.W. RC Lwn 3 1811 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1695, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1695, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1695, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 30 Oct 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1695, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medical discharge (wounding) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The Minmi Roll of Honour has 79 names inscribed of those who returned home from The Great War.
The 37th name inscribed is Private George B Slavin Jnr.
On the 1st February 1977, the funeral was held at Woronora Memorial Park, N.S.W. for Private George B Slavin Jnr, 35th Battalion (Reg No-1695), butcher from Brown Street, West Wallsend, New South Wales and Monterey, N.S.W., age 84 years 10 months. Ashes interred Woronora Memorial Park, N.S.W. RC Lwn 3 1811, date unknown.
SLAVIN, George , death notice, 31 JAN 1977, age 84, late of Monterey, N.S.W., Sydney Morning Herald, 1 FEB 1977.
Born at Minmi, New South Wales on the 12th March 1892 to George Snr, died 19.4.1930, Granville, N.S.W., age 67, buried at Sandgate Cemetery, N.S.W., CATHOLIC 1-B Spec. 115, from Cornish Row, Minmi, New South Wales and Brown Street, West Wallsend, N.S.W. and Sydney, N.S.W., and Annie Slavin nee Kelly, died 28.11.1898, Minmi, N.S.W., age 34, mother of 5, sleeping at Sandgate Cemetery, N.S.W., CATHOLIC 1-B Spec. 115, from Cornish Row, Minmi, New South Wales; husband of Selina Margaret Slavin nee O'Sullivan, married 1918, Sydney, N.S.W., died 24.9.1978, Sydney, N.S.W., age 80, mother of 3.
George enlisted on the 7th February 1916, age 23 years 10 months, at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 9.7.1916.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Southampton, England 21.11.1916.
Wounded in action - 30.5.1917 (GSW forehead, right eye, left hand).
Commenced return to Australia 27.7.1917.
George arrived home invalided on the 24th September 1917, being discharged on the 30th October 1917.
Not officially commemorated.
Mr. Slavin’s name has also been inscribed on the West Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial and the West Wallsend Superior Public School Honour Roll.
I would like to see poppies placed at George’s plaque in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
A member of the Goulburn Fire Brigade.
Younger brother Peter Slavin, referred to as Paddy, born 9.10.1893, Minmi, New South Wales, single school teacher from Brown Street, West Wallsend, New South Wales, enlisted 3.1.1916, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 22 years 2 months, 34th Battalion, Reg No-545, commenced return to Australia 11.5.1919, RTA 28.6.1919, Lance Corporal, discharged 12.8.1919, died 24.4.1980, Sydney, N.S.W., age 86 years 6 months, ashes interred Woronora Memorial Park, N.S.W., date unknown, not officially commemorated.
Name inscribed on the West Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial and the West Wallsend Superior Public School Honour Roll. Name probably should have been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour with brother George.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/minmi-roll-of-honour/.
Lest We Forget.
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