Wellesley SAXWARD-JESSUP

SAXWARD-JESSUP, Wellesley

Service Number: 1171
Enlisted: 28 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 4th Pioneer Battalion
Born: London, England, September 1892
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Battersea Grammar School, England
Occupation: Shipwright
Died: Killed in Action, France, 16 February 1917
Cemetery: Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval
Thistle Dump Cemetery, Longueval, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

28 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1171, Melbourne, Victoria
9 Nov 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1171, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
9 Nov 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1171, 31st Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1
16 Apr 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Pioneer Battalion
5 Oct 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1171, 4th Pioneer Battalion, GSW (leg)
16 Feb 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1171, 4th Pioneer Battalion, German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line and Outpost Villages

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Wellesley SAXWARD-JESSUP was born in London in 1892

His parents were Samson JESSUP & Mary Charlotte NIGH who married in England in  1878 (marriage registeed in Croydon, UK)