HAMILTON SPECTATOR
Thursday
19th August 1915
RETURNED PENSHURST SOLDIER
WELCOMED.
Our Penshurst correspondent
writes: There was a large crowd on the railway station on Tuesday evening to
extend a welcome to Private P. Rice, who was wounded in the fighting in the
Dardanelles, and who was the first soldier to return to Penshurst. Three hearty
cheers were given as Private Rice stepped on to the platform. Appropriate
addresses were delivered by Crs. Chesswas and Kelly, and Messrs. D. Greig and
T. Leahy, after which the crowd joined in singing "For he's a jolly good
fellow." The Penshurst band was also in attendance and rendered a number of
patriotic airs.
From the
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
OF AUSTRALIA
RICE Peter Joseph
Enlisted: 1/10/1914
Age: 23
Address - Penshurst Vic
Service Number - 772
Place of Birth - Penshurst VIC
Place of Enlistment - Melbourne VIC
Next of Kin: (Father) RICE Owen, Penshurst.
Occupation: Assistant buttermaker.
Roll title: 14 Infantry Battalion
(December 1914)
Conflict: First World War,
1914-1918
Date of embarkation: 22 December 1914
Place of embarkation: Melbourne
Ship embarked on: HMAT Ulysses A38
Injured: 1/5/1915 Bullet wound forearm, Dardanelles. Hospital
Heliopolis
Embarked for Australia: on Steamship Ballarat 5/7/1915
Arrived Australia 6/8/1915
