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BARKER, Richard Edward
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 5757 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation: | labourer |
| Died: | Congestive cardiac failure, chronic mycarditis, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 2 November 1954 |
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World War 1 Service
| 20 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5757, 1st Divisional Signal Company | |
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| 20 Jan 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5757, 1st Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 20 Jan 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5757, 1st Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 13 Oct 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 12 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 5757, 1st Field Company Engineers, Embarked SS Soudan, for Sydney, Australia. Disembarked 3 July, 1919. | |
| 20 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 5757, Awarded British War & Victory Medals |
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