Wilfred Stanley MERLIN

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MERLIN, Wilfred Stanley

Service Number:	8006
Enlisted:	26 July 1915
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	6th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1889
Home Town:	Byaduk, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	School Teacher
Died:	Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, 2/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, Resmenil Farm near Hem, France, 1 August 1916
Cemetery:	Hem Communal Cemetery, Somme
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Byaduk War Memorial, Dimboola Memorial High School WWI Honour Roll, Tourello Walnut Grove Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

26 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 8006, 6th Field Artillery Brigade
22 Nov 1915:	Involvement Gunner, 8006, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
22 Nov 1915:	Embarked Gunner, 8006, 6th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Persic, Melbourne
1 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 8006, 6th Field Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Peter Rankin

Served as Wilfred Stanley Merlin

Biography contributed by Andreena Hockley

"Bombardier Wilfred Stanley Merlin, who died on 1st August, 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, while on active service in France, was the only son of Mr. W. T. Merlin, head teacher of the Raglan School.

Born in 1889, he commenced duty as a junior teacher at Warrnambool in 1906. After a few months, he was transferred in a similar capacity to School No. 855, Byaduk. His first appointment as a head teacher was to No. 2683, Lawloit; next, to No. 3065, Barupa; and then, finally, to the Lochiel Bridge School, near Dimboola. Thence he enlisted in August, 1915.

His Departmental record shows him to have been a fine, bright, energetic teacher, who did good, useful service. A letter from the school committee and parents at Lochiel Bridge states: "As a teacher, his patience and kindness towards the children was characteristic of his noble nature, and great is the loss indeed that the Education Department has sustained through his death.""

Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.

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