1882 - 1916
Keith Heritage Australian Rower
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Keith Heritage is a member of the following lists: People from Tasmania, Recipients of the Military Cross and 1882 births.
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1881
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| Birthplace |
Longford, Tasmania
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| Died |
1916
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| Place of Death |
Pozieres, France
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| Buried |
Pozières Memorial, France
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| Nationality |
Australian
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| Occupation |
Rower
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Keith Heritage MC (1882 – 26 July 1916) was an Australian national champion and representative rower and a 1st AIF officer who fell on the Western Front in WWI. He is credited with being the first Australian to volunteer for the AIF at the outbreak of WWI and as one of the last Australian officers to leave Anzac Cove at the end of the Gallipoli Campaign. As a rower he was twice an Australian national champion and he won the Grand Challenge Cup in an Australian representative eight racing as Sydney Rowing Club at the 1912 Henley Royal Regatta. He saw action in WWI in German New Guinea, Gallipoli and on the Western Front and was awarded the Military Cross.
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