JURD, Frederick George
| Service Number: | 2332 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Company Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 5th Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Surrey, England, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Crows Nest, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Foreman of Wharf |
| Died: | Mater Hospital, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 8 February 1939, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 26 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2332, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 14 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 2332, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 2332, 5th Pioneer Battalion |
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Frederick George Jurd was born in London in 1870, and enlisted in the Royal Marines at the age of 19. He emigrated to Australia some time after 1910. On 15 August 1914, aged 43, Jurd enlisted in the naval contingent of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force as an Able Seaman serving with it until January 1915. In May 1915, he enlisted as a private in 2 Infantry Battalion AIF. He joined the Battalion on Gallipoli and served with it until the evacuation. In 1916, he was posted to 5 Pioneer Battalion, and served with it for the remainder of the war, rising to the rank of warrant officer. Jurd was decorated three times in 1918, receiving the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the Military Medal and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He returned to Australia in February 1919, and was discharged medically unfit due to a gun shot wound to his right leg, suffered at Bellicourt. Frederick Jurd died in Sydney in 1939.
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