LARKIN, Andrew Richard
| Service Number: | 3867 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 30 November 1914, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Baulkamaugh North, Victoria, Australia, 12 August 1892 |
| Home Town: | Casterton, Glenelg, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Katunga State School |
| Occupation: | Railway shunter |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 22 July 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Leongatha Fallen Soldiers Honour Roll, Numurkah Town Hall Shire of Numurkah Roll of Honor, Numurkah WW1 Honour Roll, Numurkah and District War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3867, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 19 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 3867, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 3867, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 14 Jul 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 3867, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 15 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 21st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade | |
| 2 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 3867, 21st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17, GSW (left thigh) | |
| 22 Jul 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 3867, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Warneton, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3867 awm_unit: 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-07-22 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Alissa Woodhouse
"...3867 Gunner Andrew Richard Larkin, 1st Divisional Ammunition Column (DAC) Australian Field Artillery Brigade (FAB), of Casterton Vic, who enlisted on 30 November 1914 and died of wounds on 22 July 1917, aged 25 years. He was one of four brothers who served in the AIF. Another brother Private Michael Edward Larkin of the 8th Light Horse was killed in action on 7 August 1915." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Andrew Richard LARKIN was born in Numurkah, Victoria, in 1892. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a fuelman at the Harden locomotive depot in June 1914. In November 1914 he enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool.
Allotted to the artillery, he was sent to Gallipoli in July 1915 and in September ‘taken on strength’ there by a field artillery battery. He returned to Cairo in October suffering from ‘diarrhoea’,. He was hospitalised there until December 1915. In March 1916 he joined another artillery unit and was sent to France. On 2nd November 1916 he was wounded in action (gunshot wound of left thigh) and was evacuated to hospital in England. He returned to France in February 1917 and was ‘taken on strength’ by the artillery in April.
On 20th July he was wounded in action again and admitted the next day to the 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station with severe shell wounds of the left thigh. He died of these wounds at 10.30am on 22nd July 1917. He was buried at 2pm the same day in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
He was one of four brothers who enlisted in the AIF, and one of two who were killed. A war pension was granted to his mother.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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