Norman Roy AUSTIN

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AUSTIN, Norman Roy

Service Number:	3784
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Australian Flying Corps (AFC)
Born:	Albert Park, Victoria, Australia , 7 December 1897
Home Town:	Albert Park, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Engineer
Died:	Pnuemonic Influenza, Woodmans Point, Western Australia, Australia, 26 December 1918, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia NC1. 1., Quarantine Station, Woodman Point, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Brunswick Honour Roll, Coburg Moreland State School No 2837 Honour Roll, Coogee "Boonah" Tragedy Memorial

World War 1 Service

22 Oct 1918:	Involvement Corporal, 3784, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Boonah embarkation_ship_number: A36 public_note: ''
22 Oct 1918:	Embarked Corporal, 3784, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), HMAT Boonah, Adelaide
26 Dec 1918:	Involvement Corporal, 3784, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3784 awm_unit: Australian Flying Corps awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-12-26

Corporal Norman Roy Adams

The troopship, 'Boonah' arrived back in Fremantle in 1918 bearing soldiers infected with the Spanish Flu then rampant in South Africa where the ship had docked. A number of the soldiers, quarantined at Woodman Point, and the nurses attending them died.

Norman died from that disease on 26 December 1918 and was buried at Woodman Point's military cemetery. On 27 June 1958 he was re-interred at the Perth War Cemetery. He was only 21 years of age, the only and much beloved son of F and I Austin.

A room in the museum at the former quarantine station, and a memorial outside the former Isolation Hospital commemorates the tragic victims.

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