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Erik BERG Update Details

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Service Number:	2153
Enlisted:	18 November 1915
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	11th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Electric Linesman
Died:	Died of Illness (Tuberculosis), Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA, 10 December 1920, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia C.of.E. Sec. Path 30. Plot 4221
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Enfield Methodist Church Honour Roll, Kurralta Park Employees of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company Limited Roll of Honour, Nailsworth Primary School Great War Roll of Honour

18 Nov 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2153, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
16 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 2153, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
16 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 2153, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Driver, 2153, 11th Field Artillery Brigade
Date unknown:	Wounded 2153

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He was 31 and served with the 11th A.F.A. Brigade-Australian Field Artillery

Discharged (medically unfit: tuberculosis: severe), 21 March 1918.