LAWRENCE, Murray Leslie
| Service Number: | 20559 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 November 1917, Mount Gambier, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 28 June 1898 |
| Home Town: | Millicent, Wattle Range, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Upholsterer |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Nov 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 20559, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Mount Gambier, SA | |
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| 6 Aug 1918: | Involvement Private, 20559, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: SS Gaika embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 6 Aug 1918: | Embarked Private, 20559, Army Medical Corps (AIF), SS Gaika, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
20559 Murray Leslie LAWRENCE was born at Mount Gambier on 28 June 1898 and was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 27 September 1910 by his father, Harry Lawrence, saddler, of Hart Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 31 July 1914 and worked for Mr G. Lewis’s furniture and upholstering business in Mount Gambier.
He enlisted at Mount Gambier on 27 November 1917 (19, upholsterer, married with one child, Presbyterian) naming his wife, Mrs Irma Lawrence of Millicent as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Gaika’ on 6 August 1918, disembarked at London on 13 October and was attached to the Army Medical Corps Training Depot. He was hospitalised with influenza from 14 November to 13 December. He was also hospitalised for six weeks during 1919. He left England for return to Australia on the ‘Paranga’ on 8 September 1919, disembarked on 25 October and was discharged on 11 November.
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