George Pierce FOOT

FOOT, George Pierce

Service Numbers: 1664, 74
Enlisted: 8 August 1914, Townsville, Queensland
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 5th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Charters Towers, Queensland, 6 June 1885
Home Town: Townsville, Townsville, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Bushman
Died: Natural causes, Queensland, Australia, 26 December 1962, aged 77 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: City of Townsville WW1 Honour Roll, Townsville Grammar School WWI Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

8 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1664, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Townsville, Queensland
17 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 74, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Townsville, Queensland
21 Dec 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 74, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

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21 Dec 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 74, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Persic, Sydney
10 May 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 74, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
10 Dec 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 5th Light Horse Regiment
9 Aug 1916: Wounded GSW (thigh)
30 Aug 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
19 Mar 1917: Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 74, 5th Light Horse Regiment

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Biography

Father   Alfred Knethel Foot  (b.     - d.      ) and
Mother  Mary Eleanor Foot (nee Madden - b. 5/6/1857 - d. ____)
Mary Eleanor (the youngest) arrived in Melbourne in 1879 and somehow ended up in QLD near her brother. She came out with her sister Janet Louisa (both "ladies" on the shipping records). Janet must have returned at some stage as she appears in the 1901 census but retained  property in QLD as that is mentioned in her will extract.

parents married in 1881, and lived at Cardington Station, via Townsville, Queensland.

Children:
Daughter   Janet Helen FOOT  (b.    - d.    )
Son            Henry Daintree FOOT  (b. 1883 - d. 1/5/1915)
Son            George Pierce FOOT (b. 1885 - d.
Daughter    Alice Conchie FOOT (b. 1887 - d
Son            Eric Douglas FOOT (b. 1889 - d.
Son            Alexander Madden FOOT (b. 15/7/1892 - d. 22/11/1915)
Daughter    Lilla Mary FOOT (b. 1894 - d.
Daughter    Hester Olive Luise FOOT (b. 1896 - d.

Siblings in service:
Brother       Henry Daintree FOOT  (b. 1883 - d. 1/5/1915)
                   Lance Corporal, 15th Infantry Battalion   (service #135)
                   killed in action, Quinn's Post, Gallipoli
Brother       Eric Douglas FOOT  -  Private in 4th Pioneer Battalion (service #4064)
                   returned to Australia  18/7/1919
Brother       Alexander Madden FOOT -  Private in  5th Light Horse Regiment, B Squadron
                  (service #244)  Gallipoli Peninsula
                   killed in action  22/11/1915

On enlisting George  lived at Charters Towers, Queensland.

Previous service:  2nd Infantry, Townsville Rifle Club

Described on enlisting as 29 years old; single; 5' 11" tall; 141 lbs; fresh complexion;
bluish eyes; black hair; Church of England.

August 1914    Mobilised for war service

8/8/1914          Embarked Cairns for Thursday Island  (with brother Henry Daintree FOOT)

14/8/1914        Enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

16/8/1914        Re-embarked Thursday Island, on board Kanowna,  for capture of German New Guinea

6/9/1914          taken on strength of Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

18/9/1914        returned to Townsville,  owing to mutiny by members of ship's crew (firemen)

****Did not participate in capture of German New Guinea*****

18/9/1914        discharged from Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, 18 September 1914

Classified as eligible for British War medal.

 

16/9/1914       completed medical in Townsville, fit for service

17/9/1914       Enlisted

21/9/1914       Took Oath in Townsville

8/12/1914       Commanding Officer appointed George to Machine Gun Section, Enoggera Camp

21/12/1914     Embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A34 Persic
                       as a Private with 2nd Light Horse Brigade, 5th Light Horse Regiment,
                       Machine Gun Section

10/5/1915       Proceeded to join Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces, Gallipoli

2/9/1915         Sick with diarrhoea, transferred to Casualty Clearing Station, Gallipoli

9/9/1915         In Gallipoli Peninsula

30/10/1915     to be Temporary Corporal
10/12/1915     Promoted to Corporal

25/12/1915     Disembarked into Alexandria, ex HT Beltana

28/12/1915     reverts to Corporal - permanent NCO having rejoined unit, Maadi

21/1/1916       sick to hospital -
8/2/1916         rejoined 5th Light Horse Battalion, Maadi

1/6/1916         to be Temporary Sergeant, Dulidar

13/7/1916       transferred to 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, Hod-Amara

24/7/1916       taken on strength 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron,
                       Bar El Maka

9/8/1916         evacuated wounded severly with regiment, Dabibis
                       transferred to Hospital Train
                       reverts to rank of Corporal

10/8/1916       gun-shot wound to the thigh, Abbassia
                       admitted to 3rd Australian General Hospital, off of hospital train

30/8/1916       Promoted to Sergeant, Hill 70

5/9/1916         traumatic aneurism to right thigh
                       admitted to 17th General Hospital, Cairo

8/11/1916        transferred to 2nd Light Horse Regiment Machine Gun Section

11/11/1916      transferred to 14th Australian General Hospital, Cairo

21/1/1917       for transfer to Australia ex 14th AGH, Cairo

22/1/1917       Returned to Australia, wounded, on board HT Euripedes, ex Suez, Egypt
                       for Melbourne

Medals:
WWI 1914-15 Star (5700);  British War medal (1790);  Victory medal (1757).

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  9/12/2014.  Lest we forget.

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