BAVIN, John Pressey
| Service Number: | 1729 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 8 October 1884 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Illness (Malaria), Damascus, Syria, 20 October 1918, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Gambier Knight & Cleve Pictorial Honour Rolls, Mount Gambier War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1729, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1729, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 1729, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1729 awm_unit: 9 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1918-10-20 |
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Mother, Mrs. Martha Bavin, Wehl Street, Mount Gambier, South Australia
Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
John Pressey Bavin was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Not much is known about his early life other than the name of his mother Mrs. Martha Bavin whom he listed as his next of kin on his enlistment forms and his residential address - Wehl Street, Mount Gambier, South Australia. He was a Labourer by occupation, and, as stated in his description upon enlistment, had a fresh complexion, blue eyes, and dark brown hair.
With no previous military service on his record, he enlisted as a Private in Mount Gambier on the 7 July 1915, aged 30 years old. He embarked from Adelaide, South Australia on 18 November 1915 on board the HMAT A2 Geelong, arriving in Adelaide 28 December 1915.
His service number was 1729, and he was first appointed to the 9th Light Horse Regiment.
Bavin was taken on strength at Heliopolis on 28 December 1915. He marched out to Serapeum on 27 February 1916. He was promoted to Driver at Romani on 9 November 1916.
On 14 June 1917, he was admitted to the hospital under the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (E.E.F.). He was taken on strength from the hospital to the 3rd Light Horse Training Regiment at Moascar on 26 June 1917. He was then transferred to the Australian Army Service Corps Training Depot on 4 July 1916.
Bavin joined from the 3rd Light Horse Training Regiment on 5 July 1917. He was admitted to the hospital again on 17 July 1917, and on 18 July 1917, he was admitted to the 14th Australian General Hospital in Abbassia due to scabies. He was discharged to Moascar on 15 August 1917.
Side-by-side with the rest of his Battalion, Bavin fought in the Battle of Mons (Mons, Belgium, 23 August 1914), the First Battle of the Marne (Near the Marne River, France, 6–12 September 1914), and in the First Battle of Ypres (Ypres, Belgium, 19 October – 22 November 1914).
John Pressey Bavin died from Malaria aged of 34 on the 20 October 1918 and is buried in Damascus British War Cemetery (Row C, Grave No. 43).
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