GROVES H.R.

Given Names:  Horace Rupert

Service Number:  55622

Unit:  7th General (Victorian) Reinforcements                                                                    

Rank:  Private  

Paybook Number:  613267

Age:  18 Yrs  1 Mth

Occupation:  Clerk                                                                                                         

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Church of England

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  10¼ In                

Weight:  132 Lbs

Chest:  32-36 In

Hair:  Brown

Eyes:  Blue

Complexion:  Sallow

ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  6/2/1918

Place:  Melbourne

Next of Kin:  FATHER  Richard Groves

107 Edgevale Road, East Kew, Victoria                                                                             

Embarkation Date:  23/7/1918

Port:  Melbourne                                       

Ship:  HMAT Marathon A74

END OF WAR 

Status:  Returned to Australia

Ship:  City of Exeter                                   

Embarked:  12/7/1919                               

Disembarked:  24/8/1919

Unit:  10th Field Artillery Brigade                                                                                                   

Rank:  Gunner

Discharge Date:  8/9/1919                         

Place:  Melbourne

MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star:  Not earned

British War Medal:  75374

Victory Medal:  Not earned

Other:   

BIRTH

Date or Year:  16/1/1900

Place:  Kew, Victoria                               

Father:  Richard Alfred Fowler GROVES   

Mother:  Augusta Maria GOODALL

MARRIAGE

Year:  1925     

Place:             

Spouse: Olive May DOLAN

DEATH

Date or Year: 18/9/1974                          

Place: Mornington, Victoria                      

Burial:  Springvale, Victoria

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

* Originally enlisted 17/8/1914 as Frederick William SCHULTZ; No. 277; embarked H.S. Hororata; RTA 25/8/1915; discharged medically unfit 7/5/1916

**Wounded in action 6/5/1915 Dardanelles; gun shot wound, chest and right shoulder; admitted to 1st Australia

MEMORIALS

Kew War Memorial

Holy Trinity Church

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

Service Number:  VX35528                                     

Date Enlisted:  127/1940                                         

Date Discharged:  17/2/1941

COMMENTS

FURTHER INFORMATION