AMOUR, John Vaughan
| Service Number: | 1877 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 10 December 1884 |
| Home Town: | Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway fireman |
| Died: | Port Kembla, New South Wales, Australia, 21 January 1935, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-30. 65. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1877, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 1877, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 1877, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 19 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1877, 18th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit - shell shock |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
88 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 23rd January 1935, Private John Vaughan Amour, referred to as Vaughan, 18th Battalion (Reg No-1877), railway fireman from 14 Dickson (Dixon) Street, Lambton, New South Wales and Robertson, N.S.W. and Unanderra, N.S.W. and Coniston, N.S.W. and Flinders Street, Port Kembla, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 50. CATHOLIC 1-30. 65.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 10th December 1884 to John and Bridget Mary Amour nee Savage; husband of Veronica M Amour nee Amour (married 1926, Lambton, N.S.W., died?, divorced?), Vaughan enlisted June 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 18.10.1916 (neurasthenia - nervous exhaustion, agitation, irritability and depression, or shell shock, and defective teeth).
Vaughan was invalided home on the 15th May 1917, being discharged medically unfit on the 19th November 1917.
On the 17th April 1918 at Cessnock, N.S.W., Mr. Amour tried to reenlist, but was rejected on the grounds that he was unfit due to shell shock.
Mr. Amour’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton/New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Hamilton Loco Employees Roll of Honour or the NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919.
Younger brother Ernest Joseph (born 25.6.1886, Lambton, New South Wales, shunter, enlisted 2.8.1915, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Reg No-344, RTA - 13th October 1919, died 24th May 1965, age-78, from 14 Dickson Street, Lambton, New South Wales and Campsie, N.S.W. and Manly, N.S.W.) resting same location.
I have placed poppies at the gravesite of these 2 WW1 Diggers in remembrance of their service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Both brothers have Plaques in the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.
See Tunnellers - http://www.tunnellers.net/
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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