
GARRATT, Reginald Charles
Service Number: | 4812 |
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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 |
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: '' | |
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14 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4812, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography 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.