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DEAN, Horace Ehrensvard

Service Number:	4625
Enlisted:	23 August 1915, Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia, 26 October 1888
Home Town:	Koonya, Tasman, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bank Clerk
Died:	Natural causes, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 14 August 1979, aged 90 years
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Derwent Gardens, Aust.Imp.Forc Arch, 11, Number 5, D
Memorials:	Melbourne Union Bank of Australia WWI Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

23 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4625, 12th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tasmania
8 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 4625, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 4625, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
1 Apr 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12th Infantry Battalion
8 Apr 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4625, 12th Infantry Battalion, The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, GSW left shoulder
8 Jul 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 12th Infantry Battalion
3 Nov 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 12th Infantry Battalion
25 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4625, 12th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", Proyart, Shrapnel wound neck (severe)
31 Dec 1918:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches
1 Mar 1921:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4625, 12th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit

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