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APPELBEE, Horace Robert
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 4747 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 23 January 1917, 13th Reinforcements 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Last Rank: | Signaller |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kent Town, SA, 23 September 1894 |
| Home Town: | North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Burnside Public School, Burnside SA |
| Occupation: | Stone Polisher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Vaux, Departement de la Somme, France, 23 June 1918, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneaux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burnside Primary School Memorial Gates, Burnside Public School Roll of Honour, Hazelwood Park (Knightsbridge) War Memorial, Rose Park Burnside & District - Fallen Soldiers Memorial Trees - Rose Park, Rose Park Burnside District Fallen Soldiers' Memorial - Rose Park, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4747, 32nd Infantry Battalion, 13th Reinforcements 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Jun 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4747, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Signaller, 4747, 32nd Infantry Battalion, "Peaceful Penetration - Low-Cost, High-Gain Tactics on the Western Front", KIA vicinity of Vaux |
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Son of Horace Charles APPELBEE and Edith nee DODDS
Served in France and Belgium
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