CREER, Errol Joseph Hart
| Service Number: | 392 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 September 1914, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1890 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Armidale School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Overseer |
| Died: | Died of wounds - shoulder, leg and thorax, At sea on board Hospital Ship Gascon, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 12 July 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buried at Sea |
| Memorials: | Armidale School War Memorial Gates, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Waratah Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 392, 6th Light Horse Regiment, Sydney | |
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| 21 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 392, 6th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 392, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 13 Jan 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 12 Jul 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 392, 6th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 392 awm_unit: 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-07-12 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Errol Joseph Hart CREER was born in Mayfield, New South Wales in 1890
His parents were Nelson Bromley CREER & Amy HART who married in NSW in 1889
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His brother Harry Meliotte CREER (SN 27231) also served during WW1 and returned to Australia
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
ERROL JOSEPH HART CREER (18.8.1890 – 12.7.1915)
From Waratah. His father was Nelson Bromley Creer.
At TAS 3 years from Feb 1903 to Dec 1905. After his death an Old Boy wrote to the
Headmaster “I remember him a good footballer and a fair cricketer at School, and
incidentally he gave me the first hiding I ever had".
After leaving School he went to Fiji and worked for C.S.R. (Colonial Sugar Refinery)
Enlisted at Waratah 24.9.1914. in the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment and became a
Lance—Corp.
Died at sea aged 26 from wounds received at Gallipoli.
Memorial No 6 Lone Pine Memorial
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