Victor Edmund WESTON

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Service Number:	118
Enlisted:	20 August 1914, Enlisted at Bright, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1886
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 21 June 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 34, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

20 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 118, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Bright, Tasmania
1 Sep 1914:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12th Infantry Battalion, Prior to embarking
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 118, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Lance Corporal, 118, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart

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Son Samuel Edmund Weston of Launceston, Tasmania

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Member of the Tasmania Rangers