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DATE, Joseph Baden Powell
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 3047 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 44th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, 1900 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Plot I, Row G, Grave No. 5 SO DEARLY LOVED AND SO SADLY MISSED BY HIS LOVING MOTHER, G. DATE |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor, Boulder Roll of Honour Board, Fremantle Fallen Sailors & Soldiers Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3047, 44th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3047, 44th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3047, 44th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Joseph Date was born in St Arnaud Victoria during 1900. He was only 16 years of age when he enlisted in Fremantle, Western Australia and only 17 years of age when he died. He spent his childhood on the Kalgoorlie goldfields. His parents were John Samuel and Grace Date. The father had passed away from miner’s complaint or tuberculosis in Kalgoorlie during 1911. Grace, the mother of 12 children, was living in Fremantle, Western Australia at the time of Joseph’s death.
He died of shrapnel wounds to the abdomen in a dressing station in Ypres.
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