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Ashhurst John Kenworthy
Australian
Gunner
11th Brigade , Australian Field Artillery
21
Bridgewater , South Australia
22 july 1917
Son of Thomas and Nina Ashhurst, of Bridgewater, South Australia
Single

Drugs Assistant

5'10" = 1.78m
161 lbs = 73 kg
Fair complexion
Brown
Blue
None
Church of England
Bus House Cemetery
Row F , Stone 19

Military footsteps

30 july 1915
31 july - 15 august 1915
16 august - 31 august 1915
1 september - 24 september 1915
16 october 1915

21 february 1916 
23 february 1916
9 march 1916
3 april 1916
27 april 1916
15 may 1916
3 june 1916
13 june 1916
25 january 1917
28 january 1917
6 april 1917

3 may 1917

5 may 1917



25 may 1917
9 june 1917
26 june 1917
27 june 1917
1 july 1917
3 july 1917
5 july 1917

22 july 1917

For further details see Australian War diaries

Enlisted in the 12th Reinforcements , 4th Field Ambulance
Basic training
Transferred 'C' Coy , 3rd Depot Battalion
Australian Medical Corps as Private
Posted to 4th Field Ambulance

Proceeded to duty as Medical Details , Zietoun , Egypt
Taken on strength  57th Bn. AIF at Tel-el-Kebir , Egypt
Transferred to 8th Field Ambulance
Taken on strength 24th Howitzer Brigade and posted to 111th Battery at Serapeum , Egypt
Admitted to 13th Field Ambulance with mumps
Rejoined unit from Hospital
Embarked at Alexandria , Egypt on HMT 'Elele"
Disembarked at Marseille
Transfered to the 11th Australian Field Artillery Brigade and posted to the 41st Battery.
Promoted Temporary Bombardier as sick replacement
Automitically reverted to rank of gunner and transfered to 10th Australian Field Artillery Brigade and posted to the 39th Battery.
Wounded in action with shrapnell wounds to the head.
Admitted and transferred to the 45th Casualty Clearing Station.
Admitted to the 3rd Canadian General Hospital at
Boulogne
Transferred to England aboard ' HS Peter de Coninck'
Admitted to 3rd South General Hospital at Oxford.
On furlough
Transferred from Hospital to Perham Downs
Proceeded overseas to France via Southampton
Marched in ex England at Rouelles
Marched out to 4th Divisional Artillery
Taken on strength 4th Divisional Artillery
Transferred to the 11th Field Artillery Brigade
Taken on strength 11th Field Artillery Brigade
Killed in action


Eye witness account - Private Lacey 41st Australian Field Artillery :

I was in a bit of a dugout at Battery point at Spoilbank when Ashhurst stepped into the trench when a shell burst on the parapet killing him and two others.
I helped to bury them at a place called Bus House on the right of Spoilbank and in front of Hollebeke