PEIR, Wilfred Nepean Edward
| Service Number: | 2018 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 November 1916, Show Grounds Camp, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Enmore, Sydney, NSW, 14 September 1888 |
| Home Town: | Enmore, Inner West Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Enmore and Petersham Superior Public Schools |
| Occupation: | Process Engraver |
| Died: | Natural Causes, 13 January 1975, aged 86 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Zone B Section BBB Grave 342 |
| Memorials: | Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail Record of War Service |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2018, 36th Infantry Battalion, Show Grounds Camp, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Eldest son of William George PEIR of 22 Reily Street, Elmore, NSW.
Wilfred was born in Enmore in 1888, and educated at the Enmore and Petersham Superior Public Schools. He joined the Sydney Morning Herald process department in May 1907.
Enlisting at the end of 1916, he went as a bomber with reinforcements for the Light Trench Mortar Battery. Upon arrival in England he was transferred to the Infantry, and after some months' training there, went to France with reinforcements for the 36th Battalion. He took part in the strenuous actions around Ypres, where he was severely wounded, necessitating a long spell in hospital. He returned to Australia in July 1918.
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