Norman Edwin COPLEY

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Service Number:	264
Enlisted:	3 March 1915, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, 19 May 1893
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Ballarat School
Occupation:	Sleeper Cutter
Died:	Illness - Pneumonia, At sea (HS Rewa) between Mudros and Malta, 1 November 1915, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buried at sea Rev. V. L. Keelan officiated,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Greenbushes War Memorial, W.A., Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

3 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 264, 28th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
29 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 264, 28th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 264, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle

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Son of John Copley and Celia Ann Copley nee Warne of 19 Bond Street, Ballarat East, Victoria. Later known as Celia Hore

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Listed in the Ballarat Orphanage as 'name of the fallen'