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BADMINGTON, Richard Charles
Personal Details
Service Number: | 3486 |
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Enlisted: | 10 August 1915, Warwick Farm |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Manly, New South Wales, Australia, 15 May 1889 |
Home Town: | Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Manly Public School Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Carpenter |
Died: | Died of Illness (POW of Germany - pneumonia), Essen Reserve Lazarette Municipal Hospital, Cologne, Germany, 14 October 1918, aged 29 years |
Cemetery: |
Cologne Southern Cemetery Ref.XV. A. 54. Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY FROM HIS MOTHER & BROTHERS IN AUSTRALIA |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Manly War Memorial NSW |
Service History
World War 1 Service
10 Aug 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, 3486, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Warwick Farm | |
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2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3486, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3486, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
19 Jul 1916: | Imprisoned Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Became a POW on first day of active fighting experience, and died from pleurisy/pneumonia 14 October, 1918 | |
14 Oct 1918: | Involvement Private, 3486, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3486 awm_unit: 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-10-14 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Richard Charles BADMINGTON was born in 1889 in Manly, NSW
His parents were George BADMINGTON & Anne Elizabeth DUNLOP
His brother Harry Duff BADMINGTON (SN3019) was killed in Action in 1917