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Service Number:	7219
Enlisted:	26 January 1917, Moss Vale
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 19 July 1900
Home Town:	Sutton Forest, Wingecarribee, New South Wales
Schooling:	Sutton Forest Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 7 November 1917, aged 17 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cowra & District Great War Honor Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Moss Vale & District Pictorial Honour Roll, Moss Vale RSL War Memorial, Moss Vale War Memorial, Wall of Remembrance (Southern Villages Memorial)

26 Jan 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7219, Moss Vale
10 Feb 1917:	Involvement Private, 7219, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
10 Feb 1917:	Embarked Private, 7219, 2nd Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Sydney
7 Nov 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7219, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres

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Son of Charles and Mary Ellen Bunt, of Sutton Forest, New South Wales.

The sad news reached Cowra this week that Pte Eric Bunt grandson of Mr. and Mrs P. S. Flint, of West Cowra, had been
killed in action on Nov. 7th.