HOLLINGS, Kenneth Bell
| Service Number: | 992 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 September 1914, Broadmeadows, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Footscray, Victoria, Australia, February 1893 |
| Home Town: | Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| Died: | Natural causes, Bundoora Repatriation Hospital, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, 11 February 1968 |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Brind, Wall Q, Niche 030 |
| Memorials: | Footscray Town Hall Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 992, 7th Infantry Battalion, Broadmeadows, Vic. | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 992, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 992, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 992, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW thorax | |
| 24 Sep 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 992, 7th Infantry Battalion, At Taranto, Italy for Suez and then in HT Devon on 13 October 1918 for return to Australia (1914 leave) - arriving Melbourne 23 November 1918. | |
| 24 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 992, 7th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas Barraclough HOLLINGS and Elizabeth Booth COLLINGS nee PRISMALL, Wansbeck, Newell Street, Footscray, Victoria
Kenneth Bell Holings (wounded) is only 22 years of age. He is an expert signaller, having become proficient in that branch as a Senior Cadet. He is in private life a State School teacher, stationed at Williamstown. A younger brother, Gerald Hollings, resigned his position as a minor officer at Broadmeadows camp to leave as a private with one of the contingents, and is now on his way to Egypt. Their father, Mr. T.B. Hollins is one of the best-known woolclassers in the Commonwealth.
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