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SERGEANT, John Edwin
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | 28 August 1914 |
Last Rank: | Major |
Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | 1869, place not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Private Tuition |
Occupation: | Vigneron |
Died: | Killed In Action, Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915 |
Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula |
Memorials: | Benalla War Memorial |
Service History
Peacetime
28 Aug 1914: | Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents |
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World War 1 Service
19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
25 Apr 1915: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Major, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Major awm_died_date: 1915-04-25 |
Boer War Service
Date unknown: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 5th Mounted Rifles Contingent |
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John Edwin Sergeant, also served in the Boar War as a Lieutenant in the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles. Received the Queens Medal with 3 clasps, Quartermaster of 8th Australian Light Horse Regt upon return. 1908 - 1910, Militia Adjutant, then area Officer.