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Service Number:	6025
Enlisted:	21 August 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Spotswood, Victoria, Australia, 1878
Home Town:	Gellibrand, Colac-Otway, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shoeman
Died:	Bacchus March, Victoria, Australia, January 1955, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Interred on 4 January 1955
Memorials:

21 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6025, 5th Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
20 Jan 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 6025, 5th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: ''
20 Jan 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 6025, 5th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Runic, Sydney
23 May 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 5th Pioneer Battalion
6 Oct 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6025, 5th Pioneer Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit dur to hernia and varicocele

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Address at the time of enlistment was given as Gellibrand, Williamston, Victoria. Full name is Owen Hugh Owens but served as Owen Owens

Son of Owen Owens and Jane Owens nee Thomas of Railway Crescent, Williamstown, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 4 May 1917 aboard HT Runic disembarking on 7 July 1917

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal