MAYNARD, Sedgwick
| Service Number: | 2102 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1915, Enlisted at Newcastle. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 25 March 1897 |
| Home Town: | Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Trainee Engineman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 28 March 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Singleton Public School HR, Singleton War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2102, 30th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Newcastle. | |
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| 16 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2102, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2102, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2102, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Gunshot wound right arm. Admitted to 2nd Casualty Clearing Station and then 1st Convalescent Hospital at Boulogne. Recovered quickly. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Sedgwick MAYNARD (Service Number 2102) was born on 25th March 1897 at Newcastle. He commenced work with the NSW Government Railways as a call boy at Hamilton Locomotive Depot on 14th April 1913. By 1914 he had progressed to cleaner, the first rung on the career path to driver. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 4th September 1915. He enlisted at Newcastle the same day. Not married, he gave his father as his next of kin. He claimed four years’ experience in Senior Cadets, and one year’s training with the 14th Infantry.
He was allotted to the 30th Australian Infantry Battalion and embarked HMAT ‘Ballarat’ at Sydney on 16th February 1916. Hd reached Suez on 23rd March. He joined the 30th Battalion at Ferry Post on 1st April. After a couple of months further training he embarked HMAT ‘Honorata’ at Alexandria for passage to Marseilles and the Western Front.
He was only in France for three weeks before he was wounded in action on 20th July 1916 during the Battle of Fromelles. He was admitted to the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station with a gunshot to his right arm, and then to the 1st Convalescent Depot at Boulogne. He recovered quickly and was discharged to the 5th Australian Divisional Base Depot on 6th August, and back to the 30th Battalion on 29th August.
Seven months later, on 28th March 1917 he was killed in action. No details survive as to the location or circumstances of his death.
There is a reference in his files of burial in Sunken Road, near Morchies, but this location could not he located after the war and Maynard has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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