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POTTER, Seaforth
| Service Number: | 2482 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Morphett Vale, South Australia, October 1892 |
| Home Town: | McLaren Vale, Onkaparinga, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Lower Mitcham, Adelaide, South Australia, 29 August 1934, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Section: LO, Road: 3N, Site No: 0A |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2482, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 Oct 1915: | Involvement 2482, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Oct 1915: | Embarked 2482, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Adelaide | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2482, 27th Infantry Battalion, GSW face, left arm (severe) | |
| 8 Aug 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, 2482, 27th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide High School
Seaforth Potter was born in October 1892 into a Roman Catholic household in Morphett Vale South Australia, his mother being Mrs Emma Potter. He would live his life in McLaren Vale (just south of Adelaide) growing up and working as a common labourer before the call to arms by W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia on the 15th of December 1915, Seaforth would see himself joining not even a month after the petition was signed.
His appearance was that of a common Australian lad, a strong build and a tall complexion standing at 5 foot 5, he had fair hair (blonde) with blue eyes.
On the 18th of July 1915, Potter Seaforth would go to Keswick Barracks located on Bay Road (modern-day Anzac Highway) at the age of twenty-two years and nine months, completing training as a private before embarking from Adelaide, South Australia, on board His Majesty's Australian Transport (HMAT) Themistocles on the 13th of October as a single man.
Life at war would be like the many tales commonly told, he would serve a two-year deployment before ultimately being critically wounded receiving a gunshot wound to the face and head and was promptly sent back to Australia returning on the 4th of May 1917, two years after he initially left. He would spend several months recovering in the King George's Hospital before being medically cleared and honourably discharged on the 8th of August 1917.
In the subsequent following years after Potter Seaforth's discharge and time in the army he would meet his partner and would marry having four children, at the age of fifty-two on the 29th of August 1934 Seaforth would pass away in Lower Mitcham, Adelaide, South Australia, being buried in the AIF Cemetery section of the West Terrace Cemetery, in Adelaide, South Australia.
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