George Herbert MAINPRIZE

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MAINPRIZE, George Herbert

Service Number:	154
Enlisted:	4 January 1916, 2 years Royal Yorkshire Hussars
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	3rd Division Headquarters
Born:	"Studley House”, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England, June 1885
Home Town:	Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Chef and butcher
Died:	Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 6 April 1934, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-127. 77.
Memorials:

4 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 154, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2 years Royal Yorkshire Hussars
1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 154, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 154, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
12 Feb 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 154, 3rd Division Headquarters, 3rd MD, medically unfit

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

90 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 7th April 1934, Lance Corporal George Herbert Mainprize, 3rd Australian Division Headquarters (Reg No-154), chef and butcher from Government Camp, Newcastle, New South Wales and 59 Tooke Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., father of two (Ethel and Ronald), was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 48. ANGLICAN 2-127. 77.

Born at Bridlington, Yorkshire, England about 1886 to Thomas and Lenora (Leonora) Mainprize of " Studley House”, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England; husband of Ettie M Mainprize nee Garratt (married 6.7.1918, Newcastle, N.S.W., died?), George enlisted on the 4th January 1916 with the 35th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.

Admitted to hospital 22.7.1917 (appendicitis, GSW right thigh, severe).

Invalided to England 29.7.1917.

Commenced return to Australia 21.12.1917.

George arrived home invalided on the 12th February 1918, being discharged medically unfit (rheumatism knees, elbows, shoulders, etc) on the 22nd May 1919.

Mr. Mainprize’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Newcastle & Northern District Branch Meat Workers' Union Honour Roll.

I haved placed poppies at George’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Service record states Died after Discharge, 6/4/1934.
Officially commemorated 6.7.1934 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

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