WRIGHT, Peter Hollingsworth
Service Number: | 3640 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland, date not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Terang, Corangamite, Victoria |
Schooling: | Wesley College, Dublin, Ireland |
Occupation: | Draper |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 23 March 1917, age not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Beaumetz Cross Roads Cemetery, Beaumetz-les-Cambrai Row B, Grave 34 INSCRIPTION - BORN CASTLEDERMOT CO. KILDARE, IRELAND |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Terang 100th Centenary of Armistice Remembering Our Fallen, Terang Bandsmen Memorial, Terang MUIOOF Lodge Honour Roll, Terang War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Warren Wright. Native of Castledermot, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
29th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 37. He is remembered on the Great War Memorial at Wesley College, Dundrum, Dublin 16.
Next of kin-Sister, Mrs Thompson Allen, Terang, Victoria.
Enlistment date 24 March 1916
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 15 April 1916
Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll)*Hollingworth spelt Hollingsworth
Place of enlistment Geelong, Victoria
Rank on enlistment Private
Age at embarkation-36.
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/46/3
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A67 Orsova on 1 August 1916.
War service: Western Front
Embarked Melbourne, 1 September 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 14 September 1916; marched in to 9th Training Battalion, Folkestone, 14 September 1916; proceeded overseas to France, 5 December 1916; marched in to 5th Australian Division Base Depot, Etaples, France, 6 December 1916; marched in to Segregation Camp, 4 January 1917; discharged from Segregation Camp, 19 January 1917; marched out to unit, 26 January 1917; taken on strength of 29th Battalion, 28 January 1917.
Medal stamps marked 'returned, 10 May 1923'.
NAA: B2455, WRIGHT Peter Hollingworth