HULL, George Frederick
| Service Number: | 209 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 September 1914, Ballarat, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Veterinary Corps |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 209, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Ballarat, Vic. | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 209, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 209, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 26 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 209, 4th Infantry Brigade Headquarters, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 30 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , Egypt | |
| 6 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 209, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , Battle for Pozières | |
| 5 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, France | |
| 17 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, Australian Veterinary Hospital, France | |
| 6 Oct 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, Australian Veterinary Corps, France | |
| 25 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 209, Australian Veterinary Corps, RTA 12 June 1919 and discharged (TPE). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
George Frederick Hull enlisted in the AIF at Ballarat on 7 September 1914, aged just 20. He embarked overseas on 22 December 1914. After several months training in Egypt, he sailed for Gallipoli on 12 April 1915. It is not known how long he remained there, however by late November 1915 he was back in Egypt as a Driver with the 4th Brigade transport section. This meant he oversaw a team of horses or mules.
He was transferred to the 10th Field Artillery Brigade (still as a Driver) in Egypt on 30 May 1916, embarked for France on 2 June, and would have seen action near Pozieres in early August 1916.
On 5 October 1916 he was transferred to the 2nd Veterinary Section at le Havre.
While he spent most of early 1917 in and out of hospital with various ailments, on 17 May 1917 he was transferred to the Australian Veterinary Hospital at Calais, where he remained until the end of the war. He was promoted to Sergeant on 6 October 1918.
He departed for Australia on 12 June 1919 and arrived in Melbourne on 27 July, where he was formally discharged from the AIF on 25 September 1919.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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