Keith Gardner KERR

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Service Number:	30616
Enlisted:	21 August 1916, Melbourne
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	6th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Auburn, Victoria, Australia, 31 July 1898
Home Town:	Camberwell, Boroondara, Victoria
Schooling:	Wesley College, Melbourne and University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Student - later Medical Practioner
Died:	Natural causes, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 22 April 1981, aged 82 years
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Cremated
Memorials:	Melbourne Wesley Collegians Honour Roll

21 Aug 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 30616, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, Melbourne
23 Nov 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 30616, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 30616, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne
1 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery
21 Dec 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 30616, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery, HMAT Persia, England for return to Australia on compassionate grounds - arriving Melbourne 4 February 1918.
26 Feb 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 30616, 6th Light Trench Mortar Battery

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