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KENT, Richard Henry
Service Number: | 4505 |
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Enlisted: | 7 September 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Mt. Gambier, South Australia, 8 December 1896 |
Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
Schooling: | Tantanoola School |
Occupation: | Shoeingsmith |
Died: | Killed in Action, Somme, France, 23 August 1916, aged 19 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Gambier Knight & Cleve Pictorial Honour Rolls, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
7 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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11 Jan 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4505, 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
11 Jan 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4505, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Adelaide |
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LATE PTE. H. R. KENT.
BORDERTOWN, September 26.— On Monday Mr. and Mrs. F. T. F. Kent, of Bordortown, received a message from the military authorities that their son, Pte. R. H. Kent, had been killed on the Somme front in France on August 23. Pte. Kent enlisted at Mount Gambier and left Australia for Egypt nine months ago. He was born at Mount Gambier, and attained his nineteenth birthday recently. He received his education at Tantanoola and Mount Gambler. He belonged to the I.O.R. Lodge, and was a prominent member of the Mount Gambier Football Club. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and was esteemed by all with whom he came in contact. Prior to enlisting he was a shoeing farrier, and was working for his uncle (Mr. C. Kent) at Mount Gambier." - from the Adelaide Observer 07 Oct 1916 (nla.gov.au)