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SEAGER, Edward Clarendon
Service Numbers: | 185, S65243 |
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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 |
World War 1 Service
19 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 185, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
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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 | |
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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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Add my storyBiography 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.