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NIND, Maurice Edmund Grant Pitt
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 4188 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Morwell, Victoria, Australia., 30 July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Repatriation Hospital, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, 7 May 1953, aged 59 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Garden of Remembrance 2 Wall / panel: 7 Side: 7 Row: Niche number: 197 |
| Memorials: | Boulder Kalgoorlie Amateur Swimming Club Roll of Honour, Kalgoorlie Miner & Western Argus Roll of Honor |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 22 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4188, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4188, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4188, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Fremantle | |
| 7 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 3 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), GSW leg | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Shell wound thigh | |
| 26 Sep 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 28 Dec 1917: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches | |
| 25 Oct 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion, HT Orontes, England for return to Australia with wife - disembarking Fremantle 29 November 1919. | |
| 21 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 28th Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Margarinter NIND of 22 Lawler Street, Subiaco, WA
Mention in Despatches
Awarded, and gazetted, 'London Gazette', second Supplement, No. 30448 (28 December 1917); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 57 (18 April 1918).
Maurice was secretary of the 28th Battalion Association, Victorian Branch in Melbourne for many years.
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