George Roy VINCENT

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Service Number:	496
Enlisted:	21 August 1914, Enlisted at Pontville, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	8th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Sunderland, England, 1889
Home Town:	Glengarry, West Tamar, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Orchardist
Memorials:	Exeter RSL WW1 Memorial

21 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 496, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Pontville, Tasmania
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 496, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 496, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Geelong, Hobart
11 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 8th Light Horse Regiment
11 Apr 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 496, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Shrapnel wound to the right leg
11 Oct 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 496, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Discharged at the 6th Military District as medically unfit due to wounding

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Next of kin given as his brother Norman M. Vincent of Glengarry, Tasmania.

Commenced return to Australia on 12 July 1918 aboard HT Port Darwin disembarking on 17 August 1918 at Sydney for onward travel to Hobart

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 19 December 1918 George married Hilda Aphonsa Whitpaine in the Church of Apostles, Launceston, Tasmania.