Norman OPIE MSM MID

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Service Number:	9
Enlisted:	21 February 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	3rd Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 1 April 1952, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Dodonaea, Garden N6, Bed 2, Rose 09. Cremation service held 3 April 1952.
Memorials:

21 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 9, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
6 Jun 1916:	Involvement Corporal, 9, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
6 Jun 1916:	Embarked Corporal, 9, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
8 Aug 1918:	Honoured Meritorious Service Medal (MSM), For devotion to duty, especially during the period of the operations from 8th August 1918 to September 1918. Sergeant Opie was employed as Orderly Room Sergeant, and it was greatly due to his ability, industry, and conscientious hard work that the Battalion was able to maintain its record for efficiency and the correctness of returns, etc. Often under most trying circumstances, this N.C.O. has worked most cheerfully and willingly twelve and fourteen hours a day, while, at the same time, carrying his pack and moving forward with the advance of the Battalion, end throughout the whole period that he has held the position, he has always displayed the same devotion to duty. Commonwealth Gaze 113, on 6 October 1919
8 Aug 1918:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Awarded, and promulgated, London Gazette 31089 on 31 December 1918; Commonwealth Gazette, 61 on 23 May 1919. Edit
3 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 9, 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Date of death in his Attesttion paper shows 1 April 1952

Son of Thomas Bayley Opie and Sarah Maria Opie nee Miers of Pridham Street, East Prahran, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 23 July 1919 aboard HT Suevic disembarking on 10 September 1919

Medal: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1925c Norman married Freda Murray Buckingham in Victoria