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Trooper Dudley John NORTH (1261)
9/1st Australian Light Horse Date of birth: 9th January 1880 Date of death: 14th December 1926 Died aged 46 Unknown
Dudley John North was born at 27 Westbourne Place in London on the 9th of January 1880 the elder son of the Hon. Morton William North, a gentleman, and Hilda Hylton (nee Jolliffe) North of Trinity Lodge, Ipswich in Suffolk. He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1892 when he left for an unknown school. He served for three years with the 2nd and 3rd Battalion Norfolk Regiment and served for two of those years in the South African War with the 6th Mounted Infantry. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Norfolk Regiment on the 15th of May 1901. He later moved to Australia where he lived on his own means at "Mascot", Dalley Street, Kogarah in New South Wales. He was married on the 3rd of July 1914 to Natalie Helen (nee Alston). He applied for a commission in the New South Wales Company, 2nd Tropical Force on the 14th of January 1915 and was granted the rank of Lieutenant. The unit sailed from Sydney on board HMAT SS Eastern on the 25th of January 1915 where they served at Rabaul in New Guinea. They were tasked with the destruction of German wireless station in the area. He was struck off the strength of the battalion on the 10th of February 1915 when he was posted for duty at Sydney. He enlisted at the Australian Light Horse Depot at Liverpool in New South Wales as Trooper 1261 in the 9th Reinforcements, 1st Regiment Australian Light Horse on the 19th of July 1915. At a medical examination, which took place on the same day, it was recorded that he was six feet and one inch tall and that weighed 168lbs and that he had brown hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion. He was posted for training on the 1st of September 1915. He went to Egypt where he served at Suez, but was taken ill with chronic patches of psoriasis on his chest and limbs on the 24th of December 1915. His medical notes from the 3rd Auxiliary Hospital read: - “Psoriasis has been coming on since childhood, worse lately. Has been in hospitals over two months. Served with the force in New Guinea”. He was returned for service in Australia on the board the Hospital Ship “Suffolk” on the 29th of January 1916. On arrival, he was admitted to No. 4 Australian General Hospital on the 11th of March 1916. It was noted that his condition had was improving slowly and he was recommended for light duty. A Medical Board which sat at Sydney on the 20th of June 1916 recommended that he should be discharged from the service on medical grounds and he left the army on the 7th of July 1916. He was granted a pension of fifteen shillings a week on the 28th of August 1917. He died at Hawkesbury District Hospital at Windsor in New South Wales.