KING, Colin Baumgardt
| Service Number: | 8924 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 12th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Westmoreland, England, United Kingdom, 1878 |
| Home Town: | East Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 July 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: | East Brisbane War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 8924, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column | |
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| 16 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 8924, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Macquarie embarkation_ship_number: A39 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 8924, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Port Macquarie, Melbourne | |
| 26 Jul 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 21 Jan 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 14th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 12 Feb 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 12th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 8 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 8924, 12th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Colin Baumgardt King was born in 1878 at Westmoreland, England, a son to Dr. William Moore King and Marian King. He ventured to Queensland with his parents who moved around the state residing at Innisfail, Brisbane and Charters Towers and other northern locations.
When he enlisted in 1901 with the 5th QIB for the Boer War he was living at New Farm, Brisbane, and he noted his N.O.K. as W. H. King at Hughenden, Qld. He married Helen Mary Hamilton on 23 May 1908 at Toowoomba, Qld, and they had 2 children. They were residing at East Brisbane and he was working as a motor mechanic when he enlisted for WW1 in 1915.
He served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1. First service was as a Private S.N. 149 in the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War. Second service was as a Driver (rising to Staff Sergeant) in the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column and later 12th Field Artillery Brigade AIF, WW1.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 496; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record; Newspaper reports in links).
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