Jack Parker Rippingale was a Driver with the 13th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse. He was born at Malvern, Victoria, the son of John Parker Rippingale and Janet Jacks. A nurseryman by trade, he enlisted on 29 September, 1915 and was called up on 6 October 1915. Aged 23, he embarked for the war front on 18 January 1916 on board the HMAT 'Vestalia' A 44. He listed his next of kin as his cousin, Miss Cecil Jack, with whom he lived at 1029 Punt Rd., East Melbourne.
Nothing is known of his war experience. The Australian National Archives holds the war service records of five Rippingales, but other than the Embarkation Roll and the Nominal Roll in the Australian War Memorial files, no service record appears to exist. He returned to Australia on 1 May, 1919.
By 1924, Jack Rippnigale was back in Australia and married to Dorothy Amelia Ripppingale. They lived at 206 Montague St., South Melbourne and he was working as a labourer. In 1932, they had moved to 6 Hall St., Brunswick and he was working as a linesman. By 1936, he was alone, still a linesman, at 22 Wilon St., Brunswick.
He died in 1962, aged 70, probably at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.
Australian War Memorial, Embarkation Record
Ancestry.com.au, Electoral Rolls, Births, Deaths and Marriages Index
The AIF Project, Nominal Roll