Joseph Guy OUTHWAITE

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Service Number:	2437
Enlisted:	17 September 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
Born:	Doncaster, Victoria, Australia, 28 November 1879
Home Town:	Stony Creek, South Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 March 1951, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Privately Cremated Remains being collected by the family
Memorials:

17 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2437, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
6 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 2437, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan MacCorquodale embarkation_ship_number: A6 public_note: ''
6 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 2437, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Clan MacCorquodale, Melbourne
23 Feb 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
19 Apr 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 2437, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, Wound to the thigh.
3 May 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 12th Light Horse Regiment, From hospital
14 May 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, From 12th Light Horse Regiment
15 Sep 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron
11 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 2437, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron , Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Robert Oouthwaite and Blanche Isabel Outhwaite nee Clark of Doncaster, Victoria.

Next of kin given as his brother Edward Walter Outhwaite C/- Blake and Riggall, Solicitors, Melbourne, Victoria.

Previously served with the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles in the Boer War with service number 1255 and rank of Sergeant.

Commenced return to Australia on 5 March 1919 aboard HT Port Sydney disembarking on 17 April 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal