Edgar OLDHAM

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Service Number:	3188
Enlisted:	28 October 1916, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	11th Field Company Engineers
Born:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 8 July 1880
Home Town:	Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bootmaker
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 18 January 1966, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Rockhampton Crematorium Garden of Remembrance Wall 7
Memorials:

28 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3188, 47th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Brisbane, QLD
22 Dec 1916:	Involvement Private, 3188, 47th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1916:	Embarked Private, 3188, 47th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney
27 Jun 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Field Company Engineers, From 47th Battalion
29 Nov 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 11th Field Company Engineers, In France
28 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3188, 11th Field Company Engineers, Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit

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Address given at the time of enlistment was Balaclava Street, Woolloongabba, QLD.

Son of William Oldham and Ann Oldham nee Catlow of Ipswich, QLD

Next of kin given as his sister Jane Ann Muir of Church Street, Rockhampton, QLD

Commenced return to Australia on 27 April 1919 aboard HT Runic disembarking on 10 June 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Husband of Muriel Lucy Oldham