Eric Arthur ALLSOPP MM

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ALLSOPP, Eric Arthur

Service Number:	3621
Enlisted:	21 August 1915, Holsworthy, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Forbes, New South Wales, Australia, 7 November 1893
Home Town:	Auburn, Auburn, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of Wounds, Belgium, 8 October 1917, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Menin Road South Military Cemetery Plot II, Row, Grave 37
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board

World War 1 Service

21 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3621, 18th Infantry Battalion, Holsworthy, New South Wales
20 Dec 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3621, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3621, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney
14 May 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 18th Infantry Battalion
8 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3621, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Eric ALLSOPP, (Service Number 3621) appears on the NSWGR Honour Roll as a railwayman, but an employee card for him has not been found. There is only one man with an AIF service record with those names, either alone or with other names, and he enlisted as Eric Allsopp, although after his death the authorities added ‘Arthur’ to his record as a middle name, Eric Arthur Allsopp being the name under which he married in 1915. He was born at Forbes on 7 November 1893, and on enlistment at Holdsworthy in August 1915 stated his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘labourer’.
Embarked in December 1915, he landed in France in March 1916. In August he was given ‘7 days Field Punishment No. 2’ for ‘using insubordinate language to his superior officer’, but in February 1917 was promoted to Lance-Corporal, and then Corporal. As such he was awarded a Military Medal for his actions at Malt Trench, near Bapaume, on 26 February 1917. Although the rest of his Lewis gun’s crew were shot beside him and he himself was wounded in the eye, he kept the enemy at bay while his mates withdrew. He spent 11 days in hospital with conjunctivitis in March. In May he was promoted to Sergeant. He spent two weeks in hospital with scabies in September. On 7 October 1917, at Ypres, he was again wounded in action, and died of his wounds at an Australian Field Ambulance Station the following day, aged 23. He was buried in the Menin Road South Military Cemetery. Pensions were granted by the authorities to his widow and the daughter born in 1916 whom he never saw.
(NAA B2455-3032367)

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