Regimental number | 498 |
Place of birth | Adelaide, South Australia |
School | Unley Model School and School of Mines, South Australia |
Religion | Congregational |
Occupation | Clerk |
Address | Imperial Hotel, Broken Hill, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 20 |
Height | 5' 6" |
Weight | 129 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, Fred O Hunt, Gilberton, South Australia |
Previous military service | Served as lieutenant, 80th Regiment, Senior Forces |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Morphettville, South Australia |
Rank on enlistment | Corporal |
Unit name | 10th Battalion, H Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/27/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board Transport A11 Ascanius on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Sergeant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 10th Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Very keenly interest in all military affairs and personal friend of Colonel Fulton, Light Horse. Owing to fall of Senior Officers was leading his men at time of death. (details from Father) |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Gallipoli, Turkey |
Age at death | 20 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 20 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 32), Gallipoli, Turkey The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey. The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank. The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 59 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Fred and Mary HUNT, 8 Gilbert Street, Gilberton, Adelaide, South Australia |
Family/military connections | Cousin to three who died in action or as result of wounds, two English, one Australian. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli Appointed sergeant, 1 September 1914. Embarked Adelaide, 20 October 1914. Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 12 March 1915. Killed in action, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | NAA: B2455, HUNT Charles Lawrence |