PREWETT, Victor Edward
| Service Number: | 3532 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Cooktown, Cook Shire, Queensland, Australia, 6 May 1891 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 26 August 1916, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial , Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cairns Boys' State School, Cairns Cenotaph, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 24 May 1915: | Involvement Driver, 3532, 7th Field Ambulance, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 24 May 1915: | Embarked Driver, 3532, 7th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Son of Walter Stevens Prewett and Martha Prewett, of Mulgrave St., Cairns, Queensland.
Parents
Walter Stevens Prewett-1853–1934
Martha Eades Prewett-1854–1927
Siblings
Walter Edgar Prewett-unknown–1919
George Cecil Prewett-unknown–1929
Eva Eades Prewett-1882–1963
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Address-McLeod Street, Cairns, Queensland
Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 24 May 1915-he was then 23.
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front.
Joined the infantry Brigade 7, Field Ambulance Section A as a Driver; afterwards volunteered to serve as a stretcher-bearer. Killed by an artillery shell. (details from father)
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