Returned ANZACs,
Territory ANZACs,
First World War, 1914-1918,
Place of birth
Darwin,
Place of enlistment
Broadmeadows (Vic.),
Date of enlistment
1915-01-23,
Age
25,
Occupation
Pearling and Mounted Police,
Service
Australian Imperial Force,
Unit
9th Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron,
Rank
Second Lieutenant,
Service number
620,
Next of kin
J. L. Linacre ; Motor - Garage, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, Vic.,
Date of death
1922-01-17,
Place of death
Rabaul (Papua New Guinea),
Biographical notes
An officer of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.,
History
Linacre joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli on 16 May 1915. On 1 July 1915, he was transferred to the 26th Casualty Clearing Station with influenza returning to duty 9 days later. He was appointed to Lance Corporal on 16 August 1915; promoted to Sergeant on 28 August 1915 and to 2nd Lieutenant on 22 October 1915. Linacre was mentioned in Army Corps Routine Orders on 13 October 1915 for 'good reconnaissance work'. He returned to Alexandria on 27 December 1915 as part of the general Gallipoli evacuation and then promoted to Lieutenant on 24 March 1916. Linacre was recommended for Mention in Despatches on 19 April 1917. He was wounded in action at Beersheba on 31 October 1917 and returned to Australia from the Suez on board HT 'Ulysses' on 15 February 1918, disembarking in Melbourne on 18 March 1918.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8195714,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067357/RCDIG1067357--84-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1553770/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/23/26/,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1068702--8-.PDF,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3369812,
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/66232,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25730138,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38686275,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1553770/ [Nominal Roll],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1068702--8-.PDF [Mention in despatches],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3369812 ["Before Mr Justice Roberts", Northern Territory Times and Gazette Tuesday, 15 May 1923: p.3.],
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8195714 [Service Record],
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/66232 [PictureNT : Bush picnic],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38686275 [Darwin Returned Servicemens' League (RSL) : A Concise History of its Conception and Development by Clive Francis Geddes. Darwin : Clive Francis Geddes, 2011: p.50.],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/25730138 [With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War by T.H. Darley. Adelaide : The Hassell Press, 1924.],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067357/RCDIG1067357--84-.JPG [Embarkation Roll],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/23/26/ [Unit War Diary],