ISAAC, Cyril Everett
| Service Number: | 3399 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 58th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 October 1884 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Lake Rowan State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 September 1965, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3399, 58th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Jul 1917: | Embarked Private, 3399, 58th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Melbourne | |
| 16 Jul 1917: | Involvement Private, 3399, 58th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Nov 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 58th Infantry Battalion | |
| 5 Feb 1919: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 58th Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3399, 58th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Main | |
| 10 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3399, 58th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lieutenant Cyril Everett Isaac (Service No:3399) enlisted in the AIF on 14 December 1916, and was a Private attached to 58th Infantry Battalion on 16 July 1917 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for Liverpool on board HMAT A16 Port Melbourne. Commissioned on 5 November 1918, Lieutenant Isaac embarked on 23 July 1919 from England for Melbourne on board HT Main, and was attached to 58th Infantry Battalion on Termination of Appointment on 10 November 1919.
Cyril was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1884, youngest of four children of Rev Abraham Isaac (b1854 in Somerset, England) and Mary Judd (b1842 in Lancashire, England). Abraham arrived in New South Wales with his parents and siblings in 1858 on board the David McIver, and Mary arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales in 1854 on board the Bosphorous. Abraham (a Clergyman) and Mary married in Ipswich, QLD in 1878, and moved to Sydney in 1880 before moving to Victoria. Abraham and Mary lived in Melbourne, Mooroopna and Geelong, where they raised their family and Abraham was a Clergyman/Minister of Religion.
Cyril started work as a Pupil Teacher at Lee Street State School in Melbourne in 1900, and in 1907 was a Teacher at Jamieson via Kevington, where he married Elizabeth Brown (b1885 in Jamieson, Victoria). Cyril worked for the Eduation Department as a Teacher and Supervisor of School Gardening, founding the State Schools Horticultural Society in 1910. Cyril organised the Children's Flower Day in 1916, and was in Melbourne when he enlisted in the AIF in December 1916. Following his Discharge, Cyril studied Horticulture in England and by 1922 had established a Nursery in Melbourne, where he and Elizabeth settled and raised their family. An Educator, Horticulturalist, Conservationist and Politician, Cyril initiated the 'Save the Forests' Campaign and served as a Justice of the Peace and Rotarian, and on the National Parks Authority. From 1928 to 1931 and 1937 to 1941 Cyril was a Dandenong Shire Councillor, and in 1940 was elected to the Victorian Legistaive Council - serving until 1952. In 1956 Cyril was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Elizabeth died in 1963 and Cyril in 1965.
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