WHISKIN, Mark
| Service Number: | 19946 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 8th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, 26 July 1895 |
| Home Town: | North Perth, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bread Carter |
| Died: | Strychnine Poisoning, 23 November 1926, aged 31 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Fremantle (Unknown Origin) Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 19946, 8th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 20 May 1916: | Involvement Driver, 19946, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 20 May 1916: | Embarked Driver, 19946, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Medic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by gail dodd
Mark was the second of ten children to James (Mark) and Mary (Elizabeth) Whiskin (nee Matthews). His sister, Alma Bona Dodd (nee Whiskin) is the writer's grandmother.
Mark's father was a baker and he was a bread carter. Because he was adept at horse handling, Mark enlisted in the army in the artillery section (31st Battery, AIF) during the Great War. In 1921 he married Leila Ellen Nichols who was born in London, the daughter of Walter, an engineer, and Georgina Laughton Nichols.
Leila died from haemorrhage shortly after the birth of their third child. The infant also died 27 hours after birth on 15 November 1925. Mark struggled to look after his daughter, Lilla (aged three) and son, Lloyd (aged one) and boarded with some elderly people who were to have looked after the children whilst he worked. Apparently, they were rather cruel to them and everything became too much for Mark. Tragically, he died of Strychnine Poisoning on 23 November 1926.
Young Lilla was brought up by Mark's sister, Alma and Lloyd, by Mark's mother Elizabeth.
[Ref: 'A Baker's Dozen' by Dian Elizabeth Maney and Gail Dodd]