JEROME, Samuel Keith (Daniel Keith)
| Service Numbers: | 1760, 1892 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Goodooga, New South Wales, 7 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Goodooga, Brewarrina, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
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World War 1 Service
| 10 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1760, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 17 Mar 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1760, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Mar 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1760, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney | |
| 26 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1760, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 8 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1760, 2nd Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, Shell wound (left arm and eyes) | |
| 1 Mar 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1892, 2nd Infantry Battalion |
Pte Samuel Keith ‘Jerry’ Jerome 3rd Bn
From Philippe Clerbout, Australia and NZ in WWI
'Jerry' Jerome and Marjory Collins on their wedding day see photo #3.
This was the case with Samuel Keith ‘Jerry’ Jerome. He served in the First Australian Imperial Force and was wounded at Gallipoli in August 1915, losing his left eye. He came to the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth and met Marjory Collins, a VAD who was working as a ward orderly there.
After leaving the hospital and coming to our hostel in Regent’s Park, Jerry trained in poultry farming and mat making. He and Marjory continued to see each other, and they went on to marry on Valentine’s Day in 1917, at St Saviour's Church in Wood Green in north London. This photo was taken on their wedding day at our hostel.
Jerry and Marjory shared an interest in beekeeping. Jerry’s father had kept an apiary, and he came to draw upon childhood experience of assisting him with it. By the 1920s, with the assistance of Marjory, he had established his own apiary, and by 1930 this had grown to 60 hives. In 1933 Jerry and Marjory wrote two sketches about bees which were broadcast on the BBC’s Children’s Hour programme, and their hives continued to grow and thrive.
Sadly Marjory died in 1957 but Jerry married again, and his second wife Vivien shared his enthusiasm for beekeeping. Jerry himself died in 1966.
Submitted 27 April 2019 by Evan Evans
Biography contributed by John Edwards
Embarkation Roll (www.awm.gov.au) has incorrectly recorded Christian name as DANIEL
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