Place Names Register Extract
Samuel Street
Extract date: 24/11/2024
| Name |
Samuel |
| Type Designation |
Street |
| Place Id |
24691 |
| Place Type |
Road |
| Status |
Registered |
| Date Registered |
29 April 2015 |
| Locality / Suburb |
|
| |
Muirhead |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Darwin City Council |
| History/Origin |
Samuel Henry Dick, born in Perth, he was a grocer, pearler and WWI Serviceman. He departed Darwin on board SS Changsha on 26 April 1915 at the age of 21 to enlist in Brisbane. Corporal Dick served with the Australian Imperial Force 25th Battalion, B Company. Corporal Dick was wounded in the shoulder and throat at Gallipoli in August 1915. Corporal Dick died at Villers-Bretonneux, France on 17 July 1918 and is buried at Crucifix Corner Cemetery, France. Corporal Samuel Dick's name appears on the Darwin Cenotaph. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| 29/04/2015 |
|
Date added to the Register |
| 08/07/2015 |
NTG G27 |
Date Gazetted |
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