Edmund John DWYER

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DWYER, Edmund John

Service Number:	4
Enlisted:	29 July 1915, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Depot Battalion
Born:	Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria
Schooling:	Clunes State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Butter maker
Died:	Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 September 1915
Cemetery:	Clunes Public Cemetery
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World War 1 Service

29 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4, Depot Battalion , Melbourne, Vic.
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, 4, Depot Battalion

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Edmund John Dwyer, aged almost 21, enlisted in the AIF in Melbourne on 29 July 1915.

He was awaiting allocation to a unit and was attached to the 105 Company Training Depot at Seymour Camp when he contracted cerebro spinal meningitis (exact date unknown).

He was hospitalised for some time at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he died of his illness on 4 September 1915.

His body was subsequently transported to Clunes where he was buried at the Clunes Cemetery (above) on 7 September 1915.

Source: Extract from "Clunes War Memorial WW1" by Robert Wight, June 2022.

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