Oatley, Frederick Dudley Weedon

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1900-‐02 School School Monitor Lance Corporal Form Prize 1901 Frederick Augustus Oatley (died 1898) Emily Alice Oatley (nee Johns) (Guardian – FS Willis) Sydney November 1884 Woollahra Second of two children, only son no Husband of Andree Adelaide Oatley (nee Kaeppel), of Gordon Father of John, Peter & Rachel AIF – 56th Battalion (Infantry) 6th Light Horse Lieutenant Colonel 3 November 1914 30 years Liverpool Grazier 11th Light Horse Service Record
1st tour of duty Date / Place of embarkation: 21.12.1914 / Sydney By ship: HMAT Suevic Date / Place of disembarkment 3.11.1914 – Captain 6th Light Horse 16.12.1914 – Major 21.12.1914 – embarked Sydney 15.5.1915 – proceed to join MEF Gallipoli on ‘Lutzow’ 31.8.1915 – admitted 1st Aust Casualty Clearing Station. Transferred to Mudros on the same day. 1.9.1915 – sick to hospital – Anzac Cove, Gallipoli peninsula 4.9.1915 – Diarrhoea & debility -‐ landed Alexandria by ‘Gloucester Castle’ 4.9.1915 – admitted 19th Gen Hospital, Alexandria 1.10.1915 – transferred to Cairo 21.10.1915 – Dysentry – admitted 1st Aust Gen Hospital Heliopolis 22.10.1915 – Medical Board Proceedings – incapacitated for 2 months from Military duty 22.10.1915 – embarks for England per ‘Egypt’ 30.10.1915 – seconded from 6th LHR to date 31.10.1915 – Dysentry – admit 3rd London Gen Hosp Wandsworth 1.12.1915 – placed on Supernumerary List of officers 25.1.1916 – discharged from 3rd London Gen Hosp 27.1.1916 – left London, England by ‘Arawa’ for Australia 4.3.1916 – returned to Australia 2.6.1916 – returned to duty Service record
2nd tour of duty – Returned officer from Australia Date / Place of embarkation: 8.7.1916 / Sydney By ship: HMAT Mongolia Date / Place of disembarkment 12.8.1916 / Suez 12.8.1916 – Taken on strength 2nd LHR Moascar ex Aust 13.9.1916 – to command 3rd Aust Camel Regt (4th LHR) 29.10.1916 – to Port Said to command Rest Camp 29.10.1916 – Anzac Rest Camp Port Said 10.12.1916 – to Cairo 13.12.1916 – 4th AC Regt at Abbassia 7.2.1917 – trans to Reserve Coy ICC 7.2.1917 – A&NZ Reserve IC Brigade taken on strength 20.2.1917 – taken on strength X Camel Corps from 2nd LHR 14.3.1917 – marched out to proceed overseas from Moascar 15.3.1917 – ANZAC Mounted Division is struck off strength. Orders list No.11 of 6th LHR on embarkation overseas. 16.3.1917 – sailed from Alexandria for Marseilles on Minnetonka 31.3.1917 – marched in Perham Downs, England 4.4.1917 – marched out to Larkhill from Perham Downs 7.4.1917 – adm from England to France 8.4.1917 – marched out to 25th Batt 9.4.1917 – AIF Orders transf to 25th Batt 9.4.1917 – to be Major of 25th Batt 14.4.1917 – attached to 26th Batt 21.6.1917 – transf to 54th Batt 28.9.1917 – Admin GHQ -‐ selected to attend 5th Senior Officers Course commencing at Aldershot on 8.10.1917 8.10.1917 – reported to senior officers school 16.12.1917 – granted leave on completion of course 29.12.1917 – proceed overseas to France via Boulogne 1.1.1918 – rejoined 54th Batt in field from Senior Officers School 3.3.1918 – transf to 56th Batt in the field 3.3.1918 – granted temp rank of Lt Colonel to command 56th Batt 13.3.1918 – to 2nd Army Musketry School in the field 16.3.1918 – rejoined ex school 25.4.1918 – wounded in action gassed in the field on the Somme 25.4.1918 – relinquished temp rank on being wounded–now Major 25.4.1919 – placed on Regimental Seconded list 26.4.1918 – admitted British Red Cross Hospital, Le Treport 4.5.1918 – embarked for England by ‘St David’ 5.5.1918 – admitted to 3rd London Gen Hosp 25.5.1918 – trans to 5th Aux Hosp 31.7.1918 – returned to Australia per HT ‘D 17’ – gas poisoning, asthma and is struck of strength. 20.9.1918 – admitted No 4 Aust Gen Hospital 30.9.1918 – medical report filed 28.3.1919 – died from Pyoemia following gangrene of lung Service Medals / Awards
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British War Medal 1914-‐15 Star Victory Medal 28 March 1919 34 years St Kilda Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW Died of wounds Sydney (Waverley) Cemetery, NSW C.E. 14. 6636-‐7. (GRM/2*). Frederick Dudley Weedon Oatley's name is located at panel 162 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial yes The Kings School Parramatta Register 1831 – 1999 (Playright Publishing Pty Ltd 2000) The King’s School Magazine – Month/ Year (The Cumberland Argus Ltd, Parramatta) Australian War Memorial website -‐ http://www.awm.gov.au National Archives of Australia website -‐ http://www.naa.gov.au NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages website -‐ http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au Commonwealth War Graves Commission website -‐ http://www.cwgc.org NSW State Records website -‐ http://www.records.nsw.gov.au

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