John Flinders SAWYER

Wounded:

2/3/17 GSW Back & Thigh, Etaples, France

Admitted to Queens Canadian Hospital Shorncliffe, England 17/3/17

Also hospitalised with influenza, complications with GSW & tonsilitis

Service

France:

Other

From England 23/1/17

Returned after GSW 6/9/18

Disembarked England 12/10/16

Rank

Private

K.I. CONNECTION:

Family living in Penneshaw at date of enlistment

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Descendants of :

Andrew Thomas SAWYER

Andrew Thomas SAWYER was born 21 Feb 1860 in Port Lincoln, SA and died 10 Dec 1932 in Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, SA. He married Louisa Ann DANZIE 24 Mar 1883 in Port Lincoln, SA. She was born 09 Mar 1866 in Port Augusta, SA and died 27 Jun 1943 in Kensington, SA, daughter of William DANZIE and Susan Ann PAGE.

Other events in the life of Andrew Thomas SAWYER

Burial: Penneshaw Cemetery

Children of Andrew Thomas SAWYER and Louisa Ann DANZIE:

i. Joseph Andrew SAWYER was born 15 Feb 1884 in Port Lincoln, SA and died 02 Dec 1964 in Magill, SA

ii. Richard Danzic SAWYER was born 16 May 1886 in Little Swamp, SA and died 1971 in New Zealand. He married Prudence Daisy ALLEN in 1915 in New Zealand

iii. Frederick William SAWYER was born 13 Sep 1888 in Little Swamp, SA and died 08 Oct 1907 in Aboard Lillif Hawkins

iv. Edward Ernest SAWYER was born 07 Feb 1891 in Little Swamp, SA

v. John Flinders (Jack) SAWYER was born 13 Apr 1893 in Elliston, SA and died 13 Dec 1974. He married Ethel Win Glasson POLMEAR 14 Mar 1925 in Adelaide, SA. She was born 10 Dec 1898 in Cross Roads, SA and died 14 Jan 1978, daughter of William John Langdon POLMEAR and Jane WILLIAMS.

vi. 4. Elizabeth Olive SAWYER was born ABT 06 Apr 1896 in Elliston, SA and died 19 Apr 1952 in Berri, SA

vii. 5. Christina Eliza SAWYER was born 15 Mar 1899 in Port Elliston, SA and died 18 Jun 1986

viii. 6. Gladstone Murray Louis SAWYER was born 19 Oct 1902 in Elliston, SA

ix. 7. Daisy Catherine Matilda SAWYER was born 29 Aug 1906 in Hog Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 05 Dec 1990


Last updated : 29 May 2001

John (Jack) Flinders Sawyer photographed as part of a group portrait of five AIF privates who with their numbers and Battalion numbers are: 1982 H.J. Sawyer of 48th Battalion, 6326 J.F. Sawyer of 27th Battalion, 2652 W.E. Curtice of 50th Battalion, 15719 W.J. Eatts of 43rd Battalion and 2633 L.G.Eatts of 27th Battalion. (This photo is also shown on the Australian War Memorial Photo Collection Database)