WORLAND, Victor Oswald
| Service Number: | 242 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Clarendon, Victoria, 28 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Newtown, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | The Geelong College |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | 19 December 1962, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Warringal Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Clarendon Roll of Honor, Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 242, 2nd Field Ambulance, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 242, 2nd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 242, 2nd Field Ambulance, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne |
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WORLAND, Victor Oswald (1893-1962)
Victor Oswald Worland was born on 28 October 1893 at Clarendon, the son of Walter Worland and Henrietta nee Parish. He was enrolled at Geelong College as a day student in 1908. His address was given as Morongo, Geelong.
During World War I, he enlisted (No. 242) as a private with 2 Field Ambulance on 18 August 1914, embarked on HMAT A35 Berrima on 22 December 1914, and served in Egypt and on Gallipoli. He was reported ill and hospitalised in Malta on 26 December 1915, being evacuated from the Peninsula by HS Soudan then transported to Alexandria on HS Essequito on 23 March 1916.
He returned to Australia by HS Kanowna, embarking from Suez on 11 May 1916. This was reported in Pegasus of August 1916:
'V O Worland, who has been attached to the Army Medical Corps and was at the Landing at Gallipoli, has been invalided home.'
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) Collection holds Worland's detailed diaries covering training in Egypt and service on hospital ships at Gallipoli and Lemnos, and sundry items including a concert programme and newspaper articles regarding the planting of forget-me-not flowers at Vimy Ridge.
He became a pharmacist after the war.
Vic Worland died on 19 December 1962.
His cousin, Pte Frederick Thomas Worland of Meredith, enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915 with 5 Battalion. He was killed in action on 25 July 1916 at Pozieres, France; he has no known grave, and his name is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, France.
Source : The Geelong College - http://gnet.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au:8080/wiki/WORLAND,%20Victor%20Oswald%20(1893-1962).ashx?HL=worland
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