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Service Number:	931
Enlisted:	15 February 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Divisional Salvage Company
Born:	Durham, England, 1889
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bricklayer
Died:	Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia, October 1970, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Banksia area, Wall J, Niche 287. Now expired. Cremated 9 October 1970
Memorials:

15 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 931, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
6 May 1915:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Field Company Engineers, Fromm22nd Battalion
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 931, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 931, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
10 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 5th Divisional Salvage Company, From 9th Field Company Engineers
13 May 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 931, 5th Divisional Salvage Company, Gassed. Invalided to England on 19 May 1918
12 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 931, 5th Divisional Salvage Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit

Son of John Vitty and Annie Vitty nee Saunders of Elen Street, Southmoor, England.

Served his bricklaying apprenticeship with W. Wood of England

Commenced return to Australia on 21 March 1919 aboard HT Kildonian Castle disembarking on 7 May 1919

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

During 1920c John married Isabella Briggs in Victoria.

In 1967 John was living in Doncaster Road, Doncaster, Victoria