John Nicholson OXLEY

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Service Number:	390
Enlisted:	24 August 1914
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Darling Point, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor Driver
Died:	New South Wales, Australia, 6 December 1974, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Wagga Wagga Victory Memorial Arch

24 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 390, 1st Field Artillery Brigade
18 Oct 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 390, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A8 Argyllshire
16 Jun 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 390
3 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 390, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Address at the time of enlistment was given as Mona Road, Darling Point, NSW.

Son of Frederick Norton Oxley and Kathleen Oxley nee Nicholson of Thompson Street, Wagga, NSW.

Commenced return to Australia on 16 June 1919 aboard HT Ormonde disembarking on 4 August 1919

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal,Victory Medal

During 1922c John married Myrtle Auriol Elliott in Wagga Wagga, NSW

Post war John became a member of the Burwood RSJ Sub Branch