Lawrence Weathers
Lawrence Carthage Weathers, VC was a New Zealand-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross. He enlisted as a private in the Australian Imperial Force in early 1916, and joined the 43rd Battalion. He fought with his battalion during the German Spring Offensive, but was gassed in May and did not return to his unit until the following month. At Mont Saint-Quentin he was recommended for the award of the VC. He was mortally wounded in the head by a shell during the Battle of St Quentin Canal, and died soon after.
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Lawrence Carthage Weathers, VC was a New Zealand-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross. He enlisted as a private in the Australian Imperial Force in early 1916, and joined the 43rd Battalion. He fought with his battalion during the German Spring Offensive, but was gassed in May and did not return to his unit until the following month. At Mont Saint-Quentin he was recommended for the award of the VC. He was mortally wounded in the head by a shell on 29 September during the Battle of St Quentin Canal, and died soon after. As of 2007, his Victoria Cross was in private hands. Weathers’ elder brother Thomas enlisted to serve in World War I and died of wounds during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, while serving with the 9th Light Horse Regiment.
His younger brother Joseph also enlisted, and was discharged at his own request before leaving Australia. His parents returned to their native South Australia when Weathers was seven, and he completed his schooling before obtaining work as an undertaker in Adelaide. He married Annie Elizabeth Watson of Unley on 10 September 1913. The couple lived in the suburbs of Yatala and Parkside, and had two children. They later moved to the rural mid-north of the state and Weathers attended Snowtown Public School. He died in a car crash in the Adelaide suburb of Snowtown, on 4 December 1999. He is buried in the Unley Memorial Park, near Unley, South Australia, with his wife and two children, and is survived by his wife, Annie, and their two sons.
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