Edgar Murray TALBOT

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TALBOT, Edgar Murray

Service Number:	2992
Enlisted:	2 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tungkillo, South Australia, December 1887
Home Town:	Mount Pleasant, Barossa, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	10 March 1964, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Tungkillo Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials:	Mount Pleasant Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

2 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2992, 32nd Infantry Battalion
11 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 2992, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
11 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 2992, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide
24 Nov 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2992, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Chest wound during action in the field

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Biography contributed by Adelaide High School

Edgar Murray Talbot (born In December of 1887) was an Australian World War 1 soldier born and raised in Mount Pleasant, South Australia. Edgar had blue eyes, dark brown hair and stood at 5’8 and was underweight for his height. Edgar was also single at the age of 28, as shown by addressing his mother as his next of kin. Edgar enlisted into the Army on the 2nd of February 1916 and then embarked and was sent abroad on the 11 of April the same year in the 32nd Battalion. Unfortunately, in the November of 1916 he saw himself getting shot in the chest during action, nearly killing him. Wounded, Edgar was transferred on the 1st of January to Colchester Hospital for his injury. After nearly a year of recovery in England, he embarked a boat back to Australia from England, to discharge him completely from the war. On the 11th of September, Edgar disembarked the boat into Fremantle and a month and a half later on the 23rd of October 1917, he was formally discharged from the A.I.F. Edgar Murray Talbot died on the 10th of March 1964 and was buried at Tungkillo Cemetery in South Australia.

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