BRADFORD PEVERELL - DORSETSHIRE
Sub-Lieutenant Joseph MACK
Enlisted: 23-4-1914
Royal Australian Navy - H.M.S. Defence (attached Devonport Division)
Killed in Action: 31-5-1916, Jutland, Denmark, aged 19years
Son of Joseph Gardner Mack and Mayant Rose MacK, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 1
Enlisted: 23-4-1914
Royal Australian Navy - H.M.S. Defence (attached Devonport Division)
Killed in Action: 31-5-1916, Jutland, Denmark, aged 19years
Son of Joseph Gardner Mack and Mayant Rose MacK, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 1
Cressy & Lismore Pioneer & Western Plains Representive (Vic) 14-6-1916
Sub-lieutenant Joseph Mack, who was one of those killed in the loss of H.M.S. Defence in the North Sea fight, was a son of Mr Gardiner Mack, of Berrybank. He was a grandson of Mr Joseph Mack.of "Berrybank" station, one of the oldest homesteads in the Western Plains.
Three of his uncles took part in the Gallipoli operations—Lieutenant Ernest Mack, Sergeant John Mack and Trooper Stanley Mack. Lieutenant Joseph Mack was a midshipman in the Australian navy, appointed on probation on 20th October, 1913. He was lent to the British navy under the scheme of cadetship and was appointed to H.M.S, Defence. When the navy list was published in April last he was still a midshipman, but he evidently had been recently promoted.
Sub-lieutenant Joseph Mack, who was one of those killed in the loss of H.M.S. Defence in the North Sea fight, was a son of Mr Gardiner Mack, of Berrybank. He was a grandson of Mr Joseph Mack.of "Berrybank" station, one of the oldest homesteads in the Western Plains.
Three of his uncles took part in the Gallipoli operations—Lieutenant Ernest Mack, Sergeant John Mack and Trooper Stanley Mack. Lieutenant Joseph Mack was a midshipman in the Australian navy, appointed on probation on 20th October, 1913. He was lent to the British navy under the scheme of cadetship and was appointed to H.M.S, Defence. When the navy list was published in April last he was still a midshipman, but he evidently had been recently promoted.