Albert Percy OWEN

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Service Number:	263
Enlisted:	11 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps
Born:	Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, 1882
Home Town:	Killara, Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 30 June 1964, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Orange General Cemetery, New South Wales Methodist Section, Row R, Grave 26
Memorials:

11 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 263, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
19 Aug 1914:	Involvement Private, 263, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
19 Aug 1914:	Embarked Private, 263, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne
22 Jun 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 263, 1st Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit

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Address at the time of enlisting was gives as C/- H Budden, Springdale Road, Killara, NSW.

Next of kin given as his sister C Chambers of Vernon Street, Lincoln, England.

Returned to Australia aboard SS Navau

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