Edward Clarendon SEAGER DCM, MID

Badge Number: S8103, Sub Branch: Kingscote
S8103

SEAGER, Edward Clarendon

Service Numbers: 185, S65243
Enlisted: 23 March 1942, Kingscote, SA
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 4th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Kingscote, SA, 31 May 1895
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farmer
Died: 23 September 1965, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Adelaide Pulteney Grammar School WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, Auburn Primary School WW1 Honor Roll, Unley St. Augustine's Church Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

19 Oct 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 185, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
19 Oct 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 185, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 185

World War 2 Service

23 Mar 1942: Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces
23 Mar 1942: Involvement Lieutenant, S65243
23 Mar 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, S65243
23 Mar 1942: Enlisted Kingscote, SA
25 Nov 1945: Discharged

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Biography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge

Sergeant EC Seager DCM of the 4th Light Horse Regiment arrived in Adelaide on Thursday December 26 1918.  He is an original ANZAC on leave.  His Brother Major HWH Seager MC, who recently returned to England has been invested by the King.  These two soldiers are the sons of Mrs Seager, of the Cheer Up Hut.  Her other son and Ewards brother George who was with the Machine Gun Section of the 9th Light Horse was killed at Gallipoli on August 7 1915.