Ralph Francis FAULKNER

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FAULKNER, Ralph Francis

Service Number:	56075
Enlisted:	13 May 1918
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Walsall, Staffordshire, England, 17 August 1889
Home Town:	Norwood (SA), South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fitter & Turner
Died:	23 June 1978, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia Inner Circle 72
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World War 1 Service

13 May 1918:	Enlisted
23 Jul 1918:	Involvement Private, 56075, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
23 Jul 1918:	Embarked Private, 56075, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Marathon, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 56075, 10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

Son of George and Annie Marie FAULKNER

Born on the 17th August, 1889 in England, Ralph Francis Faulkner enlisted in the Australian Army on the 13th of May, 1918, at the age of nineteen. He had blue eyes and light brown hair. He was 100lbs, and was 5 feet 4 inches tall. His chest measurement was 31.34 inches. Before he joined he was the son of Annie Marie and George Faulkner, and was a fitter and tailor, an occupation that involved the manufacturing or assembling of parts for machinery. He was single at the time, and it is unknown whether or not he married afterwards. They moved to Australia when Francis was a boy, and from there George Faulkner joined and served in the Australian Army Service Corps. Faulkner sought to join his father in the fighting as soon as he was old enough to, and was finally given the chance when he enlisted in 1918. His father returned to Australia in 1919, around the same time as Ralph.

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