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Hugh BRECKENRIDGE

Place of birthFailford New South Wales
SchoolNewington College, Sydney, New South Wales
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationClerk
AddressDrummoyne, New South Wales
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation27
Next of kinWife, Mrs D I Breckenridge, 33 Penkivil Street, Bondi, New South Wales
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date21 February 1916
Rank on enlistment2nd Lieutenant
Unit name19th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/36/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board A29 Suevic on 11 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll19th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 3 May 1917
Place of death or woundingBullecourt, France
Age at death27
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialQueant Road Cemetery (Plot VI, Row C, grave No. 14), Buissy, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
88
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: John and Mary BRECKENRIDGE; husband of Doris BRECKENRIDGE, 188 Owen Street, Woollahra, New South Wales. Born at Failford, New South Wales
Family/military connectionsBrother-in-law: 5598 Lance Sergeant Cecil Ernest Ricketts, MID, 15th Field Ambulance, returned to Australia, 2 March 1919, died in Randwick Hospital, NSW as a result of war service.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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