CUDDEFORD, Ralph Sydney
| Service Number: | 3710 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 July 1915, Holsworthy, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Urangeline Station near Urana, New South Wales, 20 December 1892 |
| Home Town: | Albury, Albury Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St John's Grammar School Parramatta, Albury Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozières, France, 23 July 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Albury St. Matthew's Anglican Church War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book, Blacktown War Memorial, Daysdale & District WW1 Honour Roll, Urana Shire Great War Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3710, Holsworthy, New South Wales | |
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| 11 Dec 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3710, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 11 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3710, 1st Infantry Battalion, RMS Mooltan, Sydney | |
| 23 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3710, 1st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
Ralph Sydney Cuddeford
Ralph was born in 1892 in Urangeline NSW.Ralph's mother and father were Edward and Mary Jane Cuddeford and had two brothers Edgar Lewis and Norman Dixon. Ralph Cuddeford enlisted in Holsworthy on the 4th July 1915 and embarked on the RMS Mooltan ship on the 11th December 1915. Ralph was a private and served with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front. Although Ralph did not receive any military honours Ralph is recorded on two rolls of honour, Wentworthville School of Arts Roll of Honour and the Blacktown Soldiers Memorial. Private Cuddeford was killed in action at Pozieres, France on the 23rd of July 1916 and has no known grave but is remembered on the National Memorial for the Missing in Villers-Bretonneux. Ralph Sydney Cuddeford was a student of St John's Grammar School, Parramatta Grammar School and Albury Grammar School. Ralph's brothers also enlisted to go enter the Australian Army.
Submitted 30 November 2016 by Cheryl Kersivien
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
RALPH SYDNEY CUDDEFORD was born at Urangeline Station, near Urana, on 20th December, 1892, and was the son of Mr. Edward John and Mrs. Mary Jane Cuddeford. He was educated at St. John’s Grammar School, Parramatta, and later at the Albury Grammar School.
He entered the service of the Bank on 19th February, 1910, at Albury, and was transferred to Wodonga in a few days, and to Lockhart the following year. In 1912 he spent a month in the Inspector’s Department, at Head Office, and his subsequent transfers were to Ryde in 1912; Dulwich Hill, as assistant, in 1914; and to Rockdale, as teller, in 1915.
Ralph Cuddeford enlisted in November, 1915, and sailed for Egypt with the 12th Reinforcements of the 1 st Infantry Battalion in the following month.
From Egypt he proceeded to France and took part in the first charge of Australian troops on the German lines at Pozieres on 23rd July, 1916. During that charge he was killed instantly by a piece of high explosive shell. - Source Bank of NSW Roll of Honour
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