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S Ricketts

Commemorated at
Given name
S (Sylvester George)
Family name
Ricketts
Service number
7315
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Private
Unit at embarkation
2 Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Western Front
Fate
KIA
Veteran Notes/Bio

1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "Ricketts. Sydney. KIA (B)."

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 7315; POB: Bungendore: POE: Goulburn,NSW; NOK: Mother: Ann Ricketts. Malbon St Bungendore.

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 2 Infantry Battalion - 24 to 26 Reinforcements (February-December 1917); Age: 27 5/12; Occupation: Rabbit Grader; DOE: 12.07.191; Embarked: 10.02.1917 Sydney. RMS Osterley.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 2 Battalion; DOE: 12.07.1916; RTA: KIA 3.08.1918.Buried Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France.

5. Queanbeyan Age (Bungendore) 6.2.1917 reported that at a recent function at the 'hall’, Private Silvester Ricketts, who is going to the front, was presented with a money belt..."

6. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007. ISBN: 978-1-74027-487-6. Listed as # 7615.

7. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas' Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW and on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 34.

8. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On the 3rd of November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sig for “Ricketts" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.

9. Last updated  December 2015.

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