MEAGER, Hubert Richard William

Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli TurkeyCredit: CWGC

Lieutenant Mentioned in Despatches
3rd Battalion
Australian Infantry

Hubert was born 1883 in Newport, the eldest son of Frederick Bernard & Manuella Ellen Mary (nee HARRISON) MEAGER. By 1912 Hubert had emigrated to Australia & in that year, in Wagga-Wagga, New South Wales, he married Maude Mary MCDONOUGH.

Hubert was Mentioned in Despatches for actions of gallantry between 25th of April & the 5th of May. He was Killed in Action, aged 32, at the fighting in the South Zone of the Dardanelles sometime between the 6th & 8th of August 1915. Hubert was originally buried close to where he fell, but during the course of the war his grave was lost & so Hubert is commemorated by the Commission on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli in Turkey itogether with 4,987 of his First World War comrades.

Hubert is also remembered on the Australian National, IW County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.