Jonathan Charles PARTRIDGE

PARTRIDGE, Jonathan Charles

Service Numbers: 1900, 78648
Enlisted: 21 September 1942
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 11th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Wyrallah, New South Wales, Australia, 14 July 1897
Home Town: Tweed Heads, New South Wales
Schooling: Public School
Occupation: Fruit Inspector
Died: Illness, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, 26 March 1944, aged 46 years
Cemetery: Tweed Heads Lawn Cemetery
Section 5 Grave 11
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

22 Jul 1916: Involvement Private, 1900, 11th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
22 Jul 1916: Embarked Private, 1900, 11th Light Horse Regiment, RMS Malwa, Sydney

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Corporal, 78648
21 Sep 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Corporal, 78648

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of Colin PARTRIDGE, Murwillumbah, NSW

Husband of Ella Marjory PARTRIDGE, Coral Street, Tweed Heads, NSW

Jonathan was the Gatekeeper of the Board of Tick Control for the Department of Agriculture, NSW

CPL. J. C. PARTRIDGE
A few hours after he had returned home on Saturday night after 18 months' duty in Victoria as a ground instructor with the R.A.A.F., Cpl. J. C. Partridge, 48, of Flagstaff Hill, Tweed Heads, suffered a heart seizure and died within a few minutes. Mr. Partridge was a son of Mr. Colin Partridge. He was born at Wyrallah, and his early years were spent at Burringbar. He served, four  years with the 11th Light Horse in the Great War and for 17 years had been on the Tick Board staff. He was in recent years one of the gatekeepers at the Border, Tweed Heads. He is survived by  his father, his widow, three daughters - Daisy, who is employed in a bank in Coolangatta; Myrtle, of the Teachers' Training College, Armidale, and Marjorie, at school, also, a son, John, at school.  The interment was made in the Presbyterian cemetery Tweed Heads yesterday afternoon

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