Harold LAYCOCK

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Service Number:	1148
Enlisted:	17 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Oldham, England, 1891
Home Town:	Mundaring, Mundaring, Western Australia
Schooling:	Heyhouses Endowed School; St Annes on the Sea Lanes, England
Occupation:	Orchardist
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 1 August 1915
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 11, Row G, Grave 50 Chaplain T.G. Robertson officiated Headstone inscription reads: Beloved son of E. & H. Laycock G.P.O. Radcliffe, Lancs Eng, Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mundaring War Memorial

17 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1148, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 1148, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 1148, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne

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Arrived in Australia aged 19 years

Son of Edwin Barrett Laycock and Harriet Jane Laycock of Radcliffe, Manchester, England

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Resident of 103 Rose Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Enlisted 17 September 1914.

Embarked 22 December 1914 at Melbourne aboard H.M.A.T. Themistocles A32.

He is one of three Australian soldier casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Radcliffe War Memorial.

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