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Service Number:	1982
Enlisted:	29 August 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	West Hartlepool, Durham, England, 20 March 1897
Home Town:	Stockton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Driver
Died:	Natural causes, Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1970, aged 72 years
Cemetery:	Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium)
Memorials:	Stockton Soldiers Memorial

29 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 30th Infantry Battalion
16 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 1982, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
16 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 1982, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney
10 Oct 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1982, 30th Infantry Battalion, Shrapnel wound in left elbow. Admitted 3rd Aust. Field Ambulance, transferred to 3rd Canadian General Hospital. On 13/10/1917 he was invalided to England and transferred to Brook War Hospital.

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