Edwin Peter Tivey 1907-1943
Edwin was the son of Major General Edwin Tivey, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and Annie Bird Tivey, of Toorak, Victoria, Australia.
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Name: |
TIVEY, EDWIN PETER |
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Initials: |
E P |
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Nationality: |
Australian |
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Rank: |
Major |
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Regiment/Service: |
Australian Infantry |
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Unit Text: |
2/23 Battalion |
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Age: |
34 Born about 1907 NSW, Australia |
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Date of Death: |
26/03/1943 |
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Service No: |
VX/5648 |
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Awards: |
Mentioned in Despatches |
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Additional information: |
Son of Major General Edwin Tivey, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and Annie Bird Tivey, of Toorak, Victoria, Australia. His Great Grandfather was Joseph Tivey born in Derbyshire England. |
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Casualty Type: |
Commonwealth War Dead |
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Grave/Memorial Reference: |
X. D. 10. |
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Cemetery: |
BARI WAR CEMETERY |
| Other Information | On 3
September 1943 the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland began
with landing in the south near Reggio and, a few days later, in the
Gulf of Salerno. The invasion coincided with an armistice made with
the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side. Allied
objectives were to draw German troops from the Russian front and
more particularly from France, where an offensive was planned for
the following year. The site of Bari War Cemetery was chosen in
November 1943. There was no serious fighting in the vicinity of the
town, which was the Army Group headquarters during the early stages
of the Italian campaign, but it continued to be an important supply
base and hospital centre, with the 98th General Hospital stationed
there from October 1943 until the end of the war. At various times,
six other general hospitals were stationed at Trani and Barletta,
about 48 km away. Besides garrison and hospital burials, the
cemetery contains graves brought in from a wide area of
south-eastern Italy, from the 'heel' right up to the 'spur'. Here
too are buried men who died in two disastrous explosions in the
harbour at Bari, when ammunition ships exploded in December 1943
(during a German air raid) and April 1945. Bari War Cemetery
contains 2,128 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 170 of
them unidentified. There are also some non war burials and war
graves of other nationalities. The cemetery also contains 85 First
World War burials, brought in from Brindisi Communal Cemetery in
1981. Most of these burials are of officers and men of the Adriatic
drifter fleet which had close associations with Brindisi during the
First World War. Copyright http://www.cwgc.org/ |
