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RAMSHAW, Luke
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2010 |
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| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 10 March 1890 |
| Home Town: | Geraldton, Western Australia |
| Died: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 30 April 1956, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton, Western Australia CE Row 54 Plot 10. |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Geraldton City Band Honour Board |
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World War 1 Service
| 29 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 2010, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 2010, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Fremantle | |
| 3 Sep 1916: | Imprisoned Mouquet Farm, Sept 1916 - July 1917 Darmstadt Hospital Operation on fractured left thigh. Originally guards were young fit fighting men, then old men and boys. Met American Ambassador who toured the camp. Received regular parcels. July 1917 - Jan 7th 1918 Giessen Ramshaw spared the working party details due to fratured thigh received at Mouquet Farm in 1916. Working party conditions extreme. Fellow prisoners maimed themselves to get out of the parties. "Husten" apparently worst working camp. No parcels or letters whilst in working camps. "Just as I was leaving Giessen I was told by one of the German guards that they expected the German civilian population to revolt at any moment. They said they could not buy food, and the guards would often ask us for food, from our parcels for their wives and kiddies,who,they said, were starving. The guards looked very thin. They would give as nuch as five marks for a piece of soap." "I have often heard it said in Germany that it is only the English who are keeping the war going." January 1918 Aachen |
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