Edward PETERSON

PETERSON, Edward

Service Number: 2263
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 30 August 1897
Home Town: Turramurra, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 29 June 1978, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales
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World War 1 Service

16 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 2263, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: ''
16 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 2263, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Edward Peterson enlisted on 6 June 1915, aged 17, a few months short of his 18th birthday. He was on a ship to Egypt ten days later with the 6th reinforcements of the 3rd Battalion. It is not stated in his file whether he landed on Gallipoli but he was put into hospital in Port Said, Egypt during November 1915 with enteric. His condition was serious enough for him to be sent home to Australia a couple of months later on 21 January 1916.

Edward reenlisted in Sydney during April 1917 and was given a new regimental number of 7554. He arrived in England during July 1917 and joined the 1st Battalion in France during November 1917. He was badly wounded on 7 July 1918, (shrapnel, thigh) and evacuated to England. He rejoined the 1st Battalion in France on 3 November 1918, a week before the Armistice.

After the armistice he transferred to the 3rd Australian Divisional Mechanical Transport Company and was returned to Australia during July 1919. He married in 1920 and raised three children.

He enlisted again during WW2 in 1942 with a regimental number of N303964.

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