MARSHALLSEA, John Charles
| Service Number: | 2353 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 February 1916, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Veterinary Hospital |
| Born: | Corryong, Victoria, Australia, 10 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Cudgewa, Towong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | New South Wales, Australia, 25 March 1975, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Wagga Wagga Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium LW-SS-0066 |
| Memorials: | Cudgewa War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2353, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 18 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 2353, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Itria embarkation_ship_number: A53 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 2353, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Itria, Melbourne | |
| 19 Mar 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 13th Light Horse Regiment, TOS in the field, France | |
| 17 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 2353, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Detached to 9th Corps. Wounded in Action, GSW Right Knee | |
| 18 Dec 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Australian Veterinary Hospital, France | |
| 23 Jun 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2353, Australian Veterinary Hospital, RTA per Orita, disembarked Melbourne 6 August 1919 | |
| 26 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2353, Australian Veterinary Hospital |
John Marshallsea
John Marshallsea was born in 1893, at Corryong, Victoria. At the time of his birth his father, John Adams, (1863 to 1941) was 30, and his mother, Margaret, nee Wilson (1869 to 1954), was 24. John would have four brothers and one sister. Their names were George James Clifford Marshallsea (1895 to 1978), Eileen Bertha DeVera (1896 to 1963), and Walter Ernest (Mannie) Marshallsea (1903 to ?).
On the 2 February, 1916, John enlisted in the AIF (Australian Imperial Forces) at Melbourne, Victoria. He was given the service number 2353 and was put on strength with the 16th Reinforcements of the 4th Light Horse.
At the time of enlistment, John was a single, 22-year-old grazier from Cudgewa, Victoria. He was 5 foot 8 inches tall (173 cm) and weighed 140 lbs (63 kg). His complexion was given as medium, his eyes blue and hair brown. John’s religious denomination was given as Church of England.
John spent the first month of his enlistment at the 7th Light Horse Depot at Seymour, 120 km north of Melbourne. John embarked on HMAT A53 Itria on the 18 April, 1916, sailing from Melbourne, Victoria. The trip would take him across the Great Australian Bight to Fremantle, on to Colombo, in Ceylon, before finally disembarking at Suez, at the southern end of the Suez Canal.
A few months after arriving in Alexandria, John was invalided to England on the HT Kanowna with dysentery, being admitted to the No. 3 Australian General Hospital. On the 4 November, 1916, he was transferred to the Mont Dore Military Hospital at Bournemouth on the south coast of England. John would remain in England moving between hospitals and convalescent camps until March of 1918 when he proceeded overseas to France to join the 2nd ANZAC, 22nd Corp Mounted Regiment.
On the 17 April, John was wounded in action with a gunshot to the knee. The next month would see him in a number of field ambulances, hospitals and convalescent depots while his wound healed. A number of transfers between units, including the 63rd Division, the 13th Light Horse Regiment and the Australian Veterinary Corp, would ultimately find John on leave in the United Kingdom in early January of 1919. A short stint back in France in the first few months of the new year was followed by embarking on the SS Orita in April, arriving safely back on Australia’s shores on the 6 August, 1919. He was discharged from the AIF on the 26 September, 1919.
For his service during World War 1, he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Extract from "Light Horsemen of the Upper Murray", Year 5 and 6 Project, Corryong College.
Submitted 20 April 2019 by Stephen Learmonth