BOYLE, David William
| Service Number: | 296 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1914, An original of C Company |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 296, 14th Infantry Battalion, An original of C Company | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 296, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 296, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Corporal David Boyle was wounded in the right arm and left leg and was captured on the 8 August 1915. ‘Treatment better than what I expected, mainly due to German officers’, he later noted in his Repatriation Statement. He spent over 3 years in Turkish POW camps. Boyle was repatriated to Egypt during November 1918 and returned to Australia the same month.
Extract of a letter written by Boyle’s mother to Miss Deakin, who headed the Australian Branch of the Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau.
I need not go into details about my poor boy for I am sure he as told you all about him Mr Boyle myself & family cannot express in words our gratitude for your kindness we people in Australia cannot ever forget what the ladies in London are doing for the dear Prisoners may God bless them for their good work deal we mothers in Aust are far from our dear ones now you will quite understand how dear to us are those who are doing all they can for them Ive just received a letter from my dear boy he say if he much longer at Ada Pagar he will be quite insane his cards always cheerful till this one 24.12.17
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