WHALLEY, John
| Service Numbers: | 758, 1166 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 September 1914, Machine Gun Section 4 Years Royal Garrison Artillery. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps |
| Born: | Liverpool, England, 11 July 1880 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fireman |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1943, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-166. 30. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 758, 1st Infantry Battalion, Machine Gun Section 4 Years Royal Garrison Artillery. | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 758, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 27 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1166, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
79 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 28th December 1943, Private John Whalley, also known as Jack, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps (Reg Nos-758 & 1166), fireman and rigger from 1 Stewart Lane, off Darby Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 69 Bolton Street, Newcastle, N.S.W. and Chaucer Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. and Commercial Hotel, George Street, North Sydney, N.S.W. and 42 Beckett Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., father of three (Jack, Jean, Phyllis), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 63. ANGLICAN 3-166. 30.
Born at Liverpool, England on the 11th July 1880 to William and ? Whalley; husband of Janet Whalley nee Mitchell (married 1910, Newcastle, N.S.W., died?), Jack enlisted on the 2nd September 1914 with the 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Section at Sydney, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 24.2.1915 (sprained ankle).
Jack returned home on the 22rd May 1915, being discharged on the 16th June 1915 as medically unfit with a sprained ankle and a flat foot.
Jack reenlisted on the 18th September 1917 at Sydney, N.S.W., returning home on the 6th December 1918, being discharged on the 9th April 1919. Note – service record gives no indication of early return, Special 1914 Leave perhaps?
Mr. Whalley’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial and the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor. A member of the Newcastle Free Gardeners'-Pansy Lodge No. 21 G.U.O.O.F., but his name has not been inscribed on the Roll of Honour, which was unveiled on the 13th May 1916.
Jack’s gravesite has curbing which has been clearly marked, but unfortunately no headstone to tell us of his service during The Great War, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of his sacrifice twice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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