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Kersey-H-N-Pte-281 (redirected from Kersey H N Pte 281)

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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Kersey H N    Pte    281    Harry Nightingale             AMC Hosp Transp    34    Butcher    Married    C of E       

Address:        Moonee Ponds, Thomas St, 7

Next of Kin:   Kersey, Mrs Martha R, mother, 7 Thomas St, Moonee Ponds

                      Kersey, E, Mrs, wife, 3 Laura St, Moonee Ponds   

Enlisted:        12 May 1915       

Embarked:     A67 Orsova 17 Jul 1915

                      A61 Kanowna, no date, Brisbane

                      Karoo, Melbourne  18.9.1916

Prior service:  3 years Harbour Trust; Garrison Artillery.

 

Married Eva Evelyn Swindells 16 July 1915 while in Melbourne.  

Eva Kersey died in Victoria in 1931.

 

In 1936 Harry Kersey remarried, to Muriel Hemingway Swift, and he thus acquired brothers-in-law who had also served in the war:

 

Swift L C Pte 4886  brother-in-law

Swift A G Pte 2656   brother-in-law

Swift A T Pte 662   brother-in-law   KIA

Swift C H 2nd Lt    brother-in-law

 

South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau ,1916-1919

 

Havre 11th December 1918

Teal Joseph Edward  1722  
AMC (Aust) 5

K. 3rd Octr 1918.  Det D/B

I knew him well.  He came from N S Wales and had been a horsebreaker.  He was about 28, shortish and dark.  About the 3rd Octr we were near the Hindenburg line in supports.  During the night Teal was out getting tea when a plane dropped a bomb and he was killed right out.  His body was brought down and buried at Templeux.

Inf:  Corporal Kersey, No 281
AAMC 5th F A
Austra. Conv Depot.

https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1054306--1-.pdf

 

 

Mentioned in this publication:

Gave a gift for the wedding of Straughair-C-S--L-Cpl-263 Essendon Gazette report 22 Jun 1916

Anzac Newsletter, Autumn Issue 2015, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps,   p 24.

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall F-L

Essendon State School

Regimental Register

 

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