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PORTER, Abel

Service Number:	898
Enlisted:	7 September 1914, H, Company
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Armagh, Ireland, 1881
Home Town:	Highbury, Narrogin, Western Australia
Schooling:	Clare National School, Armagh, Ireland
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 25 July 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

7 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 898, 11th Infantry Battalion, H, Company
2 Nov 1914:	Involvement Private, 898, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
2 Nov 1914:	Embarked Private, 898, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle
25 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 898, 11th Infantry Battalion, Killed In Action

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Abel PORTER was born in 1881 in Armagh, Ireland

His parents were James Edward & Mary Ellen PORTER