HEPBURN, Rupert Osric
| Service Number: | 2166 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 March 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 June 1892 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds - bomb wounds to the head, At sea (HS Maheno), 9 September 1915, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buried at sea , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2166, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2166, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2166, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 3 Sep 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 5th Infantry Battalion, In the field | |
| 7 Sep 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2166, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Bombs wound to the head and invalided to Mudros | |
| 9 Sep 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2166, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2166 awm_unit: 5 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-09-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Thomas Robert Hepburn, Colonial Bank, Melboure, Victoria
Great regret was expressed on the receipt of the news that Lance-Corporal Hepburn, 5th Battalion, 6th Reinforcements, A.I.F., had died of wounds received on August 9th at the Lonesome Pine fight. Rupert Oswald Hepburn was the third son of Mr. Thomas Hepburn, B. A., LL.B., who has been for many years a well-known Melbourne man, and who was previously inspector of schools, and his mother, the late Mrs. Hepburn, was a member of the Cosgrove family, well-known station owners in N.S. Wales. Two other sons are also at the Dardanelles, one of whom took part in the first landing at Gallipoli. The late Rupert Hepburn was educated at Xavier College, Kew, where he took a leading part in all sports, and where he was most popular with masters and boys. At the time of enlistment he was an esteemed member of the Melbourne branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited.
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