BECKERLEG, Raymond William
| Service Number: | 1517 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 December 1914, Traralgon, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Creswick, Victoria, Australia, 1884 |
| Home Town: | Creswick, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Creswick State School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 18 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Creswick Honor Roll, Creswick School Pictorial Roll of Honour, Creswick War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1517, 5th Infantry Battalion, Traralgon, Vic. | |
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| 19 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1517, 5th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1517, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Enlisted and served under alias Robert Beckerleg
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Private Raywood William Beckerleg, killed in action on the 18 August 1916, was the eldest son of William and Isabella Beckerleg, of Creswick, both deceased. He was at Gallipoli nearly the whole of the time the Australians were engaged there. He was 31 years of age. As a boy he worked for Mr Thomas Cushing, a draper in Ballarat, then went to New South Wales and afterwards to West Australia, returning to Victoria shortly before the war broke out, when he volunteered for service. A brother Allan Beckerleg received his medals and another sister, Miss Pearl Beckerleg, and aunt, Miss M. Ward, lived at Creswick. Apparently, the aunt raised the three children as a foster mother.
Some information extracted from the Ballarat Courier 23 September 1916.
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