Reginald Charles GARRATT

GARRATT, Reginald Charles

Service Number: 4812
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
Born: North Kensington, SA, 3 November 1897
Home Town: Ivanhoe, Banyule, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Killed in Action, France, 11 April 1917, aged 19 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

14 Mar 1916: Involvement Private, 4812, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
14 Mar 1916: Embarked Private, 4812, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

At the time of enlisting Lance-Corporal R. C. Garratt, who has been reported killed in action, was a Naval Staff Clerk in the Records
Branch of the Navy Department, and was a second lieutenant in the
senior cadets. He left Australia with the 14th Battalion. He was the eldest son of this late Mr G. Garratt, and step-son of Mr J. Moy Ling, clerk of courts at Collingwood. He enlisted three days after attaining
the age of 18.