RADBURN, Ambrose
| Service Number: | 1728 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Trunkey Creek, New South Wales, Australia, January 1891 |
| Home Town: | Carcoar, Blayney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station hand |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 5 July 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France Plot I, Row B, Grave No. 11. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Blayney Pictorial Honour Roll No 1, Blayney War Memorial Gates, Trunkey Creek War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1728, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 1728, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 1728, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Ambrose Radburn was one of four sons of Matthew and Bridget Radburn, of Trunkey Creek, New South Wales, who enlisted and served overseas during the Great War. His older brother 1647 Pte. Archibald Radburn 45th Battalion AIF was killed in action at Messines in Belgium on 7 June 1917, aged 24.
Another brother 2715 Pte Nathaniel Radburn, of the same 45th Battalion, was wounded in action at Messines on the same day Archibald was killed. Nathaniel was evacuated to England with a gunshot wound to the chest and eventually returned to Australia, 12 May 1918, with a shrapnel wound to his left lung.
Another brother, 2714 Pte. John Radburn 13th Battalion AIF was returned to Australia during September 1919.
Ambrose served briefly at Gallipoli before the evacuation. He served on the Western Front for a long time, being slightly wounded and gassed during the fighting around Ypres in October 1917.
According to his Red Cross wounded and missing file, Ambrose and three other soldiers were buried and killed by a shell which hit their dugout on 5 July 1918. He was described as a very big tall chap, about 13 or 14 stone in weight, known as ‘Darkie’ Radburn and was a good soldier, one of the best and very popular in A Company.
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