Eric James Garfield MUNRO

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MUNRO, Eric James Garfield

Service Number:	12305
Enlisted:	1 November 1915
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	2nd Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Armadale, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Claremont, Western Australia
Schooling:	Thomas St State School, Perth, Western Australia
Occupation:	Warehouseman
Died:	Died of wounds, United Kingdom, 16 February 1918
Cemetery:	Brookwood Military Cemetery, Pirbright, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Plot XI, Row A, Grave No. 13. A NOBLE SON & LOVING BROTHER
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Camberwell War Memorial, Claremont St. Aidan's Memorial Window

World War 1 Service

1 Nov 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 12305, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
28 Jan 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 12305, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
28 Jan 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 12305, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Eric James Garfield Munro was the elder brother of Norman Alexander Munro, also of the 28th Battalion, who was killed at Russell’s Top on Gallipoli on 16 December 1915, aged nineteen. Another younger brother, Roy Campbell Munro 28th Battalion AIF, was killed in action Warlencourt, France 26 February 1917.

Eric served in France from early 1916 until he developed bronchitis and was evacuated to
England during March 1917. By this stage of the war his two brothers had been killed in action and Eric was transferred to the Reserve Brigade Australian Artillery for duty in England, his file noted for (family reasons). He was killed on 16 February 1918 along with his fiancee Gertrude Keyworth, a VAD nurse, as they were leaving a London theatre.

He was given a full Military Funeral at Woolwich. His mother in correspondence noted, “the boys’ father died in 1911. You will see that they have all been buried in different countries”

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