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MADDERN, Laurice Hedley
| Service Number: | 28568 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Rose Park, South Australia, 10 July 1896 |
| Home Town: | Rose Park, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | 22 October 1918, aged 22 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Fire Underwriters' Association of S.A. WW1 Roll of Honour, Adelaide Marine Underwriters Association of S.A. WW1 Roll of Honour, Norwood Primary School Honour Board, Tusmore Burnside District Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 28568, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 28568, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 28568 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Laurice Hedley Maddern was born on the 10th of July in 1896 in Rose Park, South Australia. Laurice enlisted to fight in WWI at the age of 19 years, and 279 days on April 14th, 1916. At the time, he was 5’81/2 in height, and weighed 58 kilograms. His mother, Mary Catherine Maddern resided in “Stuartville”, Prescott Terrace, Rose Park, Australia. Laurice possessed a fresh complexion, with brown hair and dark brown hair. He also had clear dental records. Prior to enlisting, Laurice’s occupation was a clerk, and he was a Baptist.
On the 14th of April 1916 that same year, he served in unit D Coy 2nd Depot attaining the rank of Private. Then on the 16th of May he served in the F Artillery as a Gunner, having received a promotion. He later served in the unit F A Reinforcements in Maribyrnong, Victoria, from the 16th of September to the 12th of October. It is further documented that he was a gunner for the 10th / 6th F.A.B. that same day of the 12th of October. Not long after on the 25th of October, he boarded the Ulysses from Melbourne, arriving in Plymouth two months later on the 28th of December.
Laurice attended the signaling school in Weymouth, England from the 8th of March to the 21st of April 1917, qualifying as a 2nd class instructor. He was promoted to E R/Cpl. Further document entries were unclear or illegible.
He then left Halsbury and proceeded overseas to France on the 22nd of April 1918. He arrived and served in France from the 18th of May until the 15th of July. Whilst serving in France, he was hospitalized on the 7th of June for 23 days with Mumps and Dysentery. He was then admitted to hospital again on either the 13th or the 22nd of October in England until the 15th of November with Pyrexia ((P.V.O.) A fever with unknown causes).
On the 9th of October in 1919, Laurice returned back to Australia and was discharged on the 27th of November as his period of enlistment ended. He was discharged in Adelaide.