Morecraft Rickards PUGH

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PUGH, Morecraft Rickards

Service Number:	1385
Enlisted:	18 November 1915
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company
Born:	Startford On Avon England, 1 December 1894
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Station hand
Died:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 1978, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

18 Nov 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 1385, Mining Corps
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 1385, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 1385, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
6 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company
11 May 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 1385, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company
23 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 1385, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Enlisted and served as Morecroft Richards PUGH

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Next of kin given as his sister Edith Pugh of Caledonian Hotel, Swinden Road, Cheltenham, England. Brother of Thomas Percival Pugh of Ontario, Canada

Commenced return to Australia on 11 May 1919 aboard HT Zealandia disembarking on 1 July 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

In November 1966 he was residing in Claremont Street, Balmain, NSW

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