Joseph Blackett

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First Name:

Joseph

Last Name:

Blackett

Mother's Name:

Emily (nee Robinson)

Father's Name:

Robert Blackett

Date Enlisted:

Tuesday, January 19, 1915

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

4th Battalion / Imperial Camel Corps

Company:

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

1914/1915 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Place of Death:

Waratah, New South Wales

Cause of Death:

War Related

Details:

Private Joseph Blackett (service no. 1915) was born in 1892 and was the first of 3 brothers to enlist.

He embarked on HMAT A55 Kyarra with 4th Battalion on 13th April, 1915. After arriving in Egypt he was in hospital a number of times with illness but in October he landed in Gallipoli. Back in Egypt after the evacuation he was transferred to the Imperial Camel Corps and saw service in the Middle East with that unit. Joseph had many hospital admissions for illness but on 19th April, 1917 he was wounded in action at Gaza, receiving a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was evacuated to hospital for treatment.

He was returned to Australia in December 1917 and discharged medically unfit with injury and malaria on 25th March, 1918.

Joseph died in 1919 from health complications.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, BLACKETT J