DEMPSEY, John Albert
Service Number: | 1282 |
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Enlisted: | 24 September 1915 |
Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
Last Unit: | 2nd Australian Remount Unit |
Born: | Gingelie, New South Wales, Australia, October 1885 |
Home Town: | Leeton, Leeton, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Horse breaker |
Died: | Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales, Australia , 10 March 1950, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Narrandera War Cemetery, New South Wales |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
24 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit | |
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10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Trooper, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
11 Jan 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2nd Australian Remount Unit | |
13 Oct 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Squadron Sergeant Major, 2nd Australian Remount Unit | |
24 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Warrant Officer Class 2, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, 2nd MD |
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AWM Summary (adapted)
John Albert Dempsey, known as 'Jack'. Dempsey was a horse breaker from Leeton, NSW and he served with the 2nd Remount Unit. Sergeant-Major Jack Dempsey directed the work of the rough-riders, under the command of Major Paterson, who described him as "a six-foot-two Australian, straight as a stringy-bark sapling and equally as tough.... He put his living into riding buckjumpers in shows in Australia, and he can tell an outlaw through a galvanised iron fence" (A.B. Paterson, happy dispatches, pp. 181-82).