FITZHERBERT, John Aloysius
| Service Number: | 326 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | King Edward's Horse |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 19 May 1892 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Professor, University of Adelaide. |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia., 15 April 1970, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 326, King Edward's Horse |
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Joined C Squadron (University Squadron) 1st King Edwards Horse (Trinity College, Cambridge) November 1913.
Arrived France 22 April 1915.
Commissioned 20 October 1915. Royal Garrison Artillery.
42nd Anti-Aircraft Section Royal Artillery 7 June 1916.
Absorbed into 8 Section - then to Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery.
Lieutenant 1 July 1917.
Seconded to RFC 31 August 1917.
Arrived France 3 November 1917.
15 Squadron RAF Observer 1 April 1918.
Wounded 2 May 1918 in Aeroplane crash.
England 3 June 1918.
Royal Garrison Artillery November 1918.
Awarded Military Cross New Years Honours 1 January 1917.
Mentioned in Despatches
Hughes Professor of Classics and Comparative Philology and Literature, University of Adelaide (from 1928).