Cecil Herbert VENABLES MM

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VENABLES, Cecil Herbert

Service Number:	3948
Enlisted:	13 August 1915, Enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	45th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 1884
Home Town:	Dubbo, Dubbo Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Burwood, New South Wales, Australia, 17 December 1960, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Rookwood General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia Plot 13, Zone D, Grave 5604. Interred on 19 December 1960
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World War 1 Service

13 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3948, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Cootamundra, NSW
20 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3948, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3948, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
16 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), From 13th Battalion
21 Nov 1916:	Honoured Military Medal, On the night 15th/16th October 1916, during a raid on the German trenches near Diependaal. He was in charge of a bombing section and displayed coolness and courage. Owing to being delayed by hostile wire, the only other member of his section to enter the hostile trench with him was Private CLARK, but without delay or hesitation they carried out the work detailed for the section to do. London Gazette on 6 January 1917, page 349, position 24. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1917, page 1394, position 124
28 Mar 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 3948, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Shell wound to the right arm. Invalided to England on 3 April 1918
1 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 3948, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Discharged at the 2nd Military District as wounded

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Herbert Spencer Venables and Kizzie Venables of Launceston, Tasmania.

Next of kin given as his uncle J. Venables a School Teacher of State School, Dubbo, NSW later changed to his wife Mary McLeod Venables of Osterly, Middlesex, England

Commenced return to Australia on 15 September 1918 aboard HT Arawa disembarking on 17 November 1918 at Melbourne then overland to Sydney

Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Husband of Elizabeth Venables. Cecil and Elizabeth married during 1952c

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