Sydney Noel Spink

Service number: 2222

Rank: Private

Unit: 3rd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Sydney Spink was born at Mitcham, Adelaide and was a wood machinist. He enlisted aged 23 on 13 May 1915, giving his mother at Curl Curl Street, Queenscliff as next of kin.

He served at Gallipoli from 1 August 1915 with the 3rd Battalion. He was hospitalised on Mudros with dysentery in September 1915. In August 1916 he was treated for an abscess. He was returned to Australia on the Demosthenes suffering from debility in July 1917. An advertisement appeared in the Manly Daily 31 August 1917 as follows:

“Mrs S G Spink of Queenscliff has just received news that her son Private S N Spink is on his way back to Australia. He enlisted from Manly in May 1915 and left Sydney on the Karoola in June of that year. He arrived in Egypt one day and was drafted to Gallipoli the next. He fought through Lone Pine and was invalided to England with dysentery. When he recovered he was sent to France. He fought at Pozieres and was wounded and mentioned in despatches, and since then has been in England.”