Topic: AIF - 1B - 3 LHR
3rd LHR, AIF
3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
Mervyn Stafford Blyth
Mervyn Stafford Blyth
Address: Partridge Island, Channel, Tasmania.
Conflict: 1914-1918.
Embarkation Age: 22.
Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A59 Botanist on 2 June 1915.
Embarkation Rank: Private.
Embarkation Roll number: 10/8/2.
Embarkation Unit name: 3rd Light Horse Regiment, 5th Reinforcement.
Enlistment date: 29 January 1915.
Family connections: Brother: 3270 Pte Morris Charles Tabain BLYTH, 12th Bn, killed in action, Fleurbaix, Fromelles, France, 20 June 1916..
Fate: Killed in Action 23 December 1916.
Marital status: Single.
Next of kin: Father, A.T. Blyth, Partridge Island, Channel, Tasmania.
Occupation: Farmer.
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial: 3.
Place of burial: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery (Row A, Grave No. 165), Egypt.
Place of death or wounding: Magdhaba, Sinai Peninsular, Egypt.
Rank at death: Trooper [Tpr].
Regimental number: 986.
Religion: Church of England.
Unit from Nominal Roll: 3rd Light Horse Regiment.
War Grave Register notes: 986 Trooper Mervyn Stafford BLYTH, 3rd Light Horse Regiment. Killed in action 23rd December 1916. Age 24. Son of Arthur L. and Rosina Blyth. of Dover, Tasmania. Native of Bruni Island. Tasmania. A. 165..
Lest we forget
Sources Used:
National Archives Service File.
Embarkation Roll, AWM8, Class 10, Light Horse.
Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.
Roll of Honour, AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
CWGC files, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register.
Collected Records of Steve Becker.
Further Reading:
3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour
The Battle of Magdhaba, Sinai, December 23, 1916, Roll of Honour, Australia and New Zealand
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: 3rd LHR, Roll of Honour, Mervyn Stafford Blyth
