FYSH, Edward Wilkie
| Service Number: | 3643 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 5th Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Balaclava, Victoria, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Telegraphic Mechanic |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 January 1962, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Interred on the 16 January 1962 in the Thomas Simmons Lawn, Row CG, Grave 45. Held in perpetuity for all time |
| Memorials: | Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1 |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 3643, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 23 Nov 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 3643, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 3643, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 9 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 5th Divisional Signal Company, From the 2nd Divisional Signal Company | |
| 9 May 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 5th Divisional Signal Company, Promoted on transfer | |
| 15 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 5th Divisional Signal Company | |
| 7 Feb 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 3643, 5th Divisional Signal Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Edward Thomas Fysh and Florence Annette Fysh nee Button of Grange Road, Toorak, Victoria. Brother of Kathleen Maud Fysh, Florence Muriel Fysh and Constance Eileen Fysh
Recommended on 4 March 1918 for work between late September 1917 and October 1917. London Gazette on 17 June 1918, page 7178, position 116 and the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 November 1918, page 2114, position 81
Husband of Ivy Fysh nee Coles. On 26 March 1919 Edward married Ivy in the Hordle Parish Church, Lymington, Southampton, England. Vicar E.P. Boyd Smith officiated
Commenced return to Australia on 20 June 1919 aboard HT Konigin Freidersch disembarking on the 6 August 1919
Medals:1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal