George Royce ORR

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Service Number:	33206
Enlisted:	29 September 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	11th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Bullarto, Hepburn, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 16 March 1954, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Garden of Remembrance 2, Wall 7, Section 13, Niche 244. Service held on 17 March 1954 Commemorated with a plaque in the Victoria Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:

29 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 33206, Field Artillery Brigades, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
11 May 1917:	Involvement Driver, 33206, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
11 May 1917:	Embarked Driver, 33206, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne
10 Jan 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column
1 Feb 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 11th Field Artillery Brigade
23 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 33206, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Thomas Orr and Mary Orr nee Rundle of Bullarto South, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 12 July 1919 aboard HT City of Exeter disembarking on 23 August 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1922c George married Mary Amelia Mountford in Victoria