FITZSIMMONS, Richard
| Service Number: | 6801 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 April 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 17 March 1883 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal trimmer and steel works employee |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 11 January 1943, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-163. 45. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6801, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Jul 1917: | Involvement Private, 6801, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jul 1917: | Embarked Private, 6801, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Sydney | |
| 18 Apr 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6801, 19th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit - disabled |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery.
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
80 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 12th January 1943, Private Richard J Fitzsimmons, also known as Dicko, 19th Battalion (Reg No-6801), coal trimmer and steel works employee from 284 Darby Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and 7 Tooke Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W. and 238 King Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., father of at least two daughters (Hannah May, Violet Jean), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 59. ANGLICAN 3-163. 45.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140445298 - obituary states service (casket covered with the Union Jack, a bit of misinformation about war service).
Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 17th March 1883 to William? and Harriet Fitzsimmons, son of James and Harriet Fitzimmons; husband of Mary or May Fitzimmons nee Parkinson (married 1909, Newcastle, N.S.W., died?), Dicko enlisted on the 28th August 1915 with the 17th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Reenlisted on the 25th April 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Dicko was invalided home on the 3th or 7th March 1918, being discharged medically unfit (hernia, varicocele, and general debility) on the 4th April 1918.
Not entitled to Victory Medal.
Nothing located on Trove about enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. Fitzsimmon’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Dicko’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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