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ANSTIS, George Albert

Service Number:	157
Enlisted:	15 July 1915
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Archdale, Victoria, Australia, 2 November 1893
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Ballarat State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer/Horticulturalist
Died:	Natural causes, Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 4 September 1967, aged 73 years
Cemetery:	Red Cliffs Pioneer Cemetery, Victoria Buried with wife Louie Dorothy May Anstis nee Dunston
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World War 1 Service

15 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 157, 29th Infantry Battalion
10 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 157, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
10 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 157, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
28 Nov 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 157, 29th Infantry Battalion, To hospital, sick in the field. Trench feet. The 38th Casualty Clearing Station, based at Heilly, France organised him to be entrained to No.2 General Hospital, Havre, France He was transferred to England and admitted to Clandon Park Hospital (stately home converted to a medical facility owned by the Earl and Countess of Onslow) for convalescence.
4 May 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 67th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
10 Nov 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 58th Infantry Battalion
12 Nov 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 32nd Infantry Battalion
27 Apr 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 157, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia per HMT Runic, disembarking Melbourne 10 June, 1919.
2 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 157, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Awarded Star, British War and Victory Medals

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Father - Thos, Anstis, 25 George Street, Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia