PAUL, Lawrence James
| Service Number: | 871 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 September 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Annandale, New South Wales, Australia, 25 April 1884 |
| Home Town: | Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Camperdown Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Boiler Maker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Johnston's Jolly Cemetery, Gallipoli, Türkiye Special Memorial 33. Inscription - TILL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket Loco Boiler Shop Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Johnston's Jolly Cemetery Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 871, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 871, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 871, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 16 May 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Thomas James Paul and Eliza Paul of 'St. Ives', Austral Street, Penshurst, NSW formerly of Victoria Street, Penshurst, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Previously served in St Georges Australian Rifles
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Lawrence James PAUL (‘Laurie’) (Service Number 871) was born in Annandale on 25th April 1884. He was educated at the Camperdown Public School.
He joined the NSW Government Railways as a boilermaker’s helper at the Eveleigh locomotive workshops in April 1910.
At the end of August 1914 he enlisted in the AIF at Randwick, stating his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘machine driller’.
He was allotted to the 4th Battalion. He was embarked from Sydney in October 1914 and sent via Egypt to Gallipoli. His records do not show when he landed there but he is believed to have landed on 25th April.
He was appointed Lance Corporal at Anzac on 16th May.
Between 6th and 9th September, in the Battle of Lone Pine, he was killed in action. Reports of claimed eyewitnesses differ – one said he ‘was killed in that part of the Lone Pine Trenches known as the Dead End by a fragment of bomb, which had hit him in the right breast, causing instant death…’ Another said that ‘Paul went out in the charge at Lone Pine on 6 August, and was killed in the night… Paul was among those who reached the enemy trenches and he was shot in the head on the parapet of the Turks’ trenches.’
His body could not be recovered at the time, but he is believed to be among those buried in Johnston’s Jolly Cemetery (400 metres from the Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial), where a special memorial to him was erected.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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