Archibald OSWIN

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Service Number:	5056
Enlisted:	9 March 1916, Enlisted at Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 26 November 1885
Home Town:	Strahan, West Coast, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Tasmania, Australia, 25 September 1962, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Row FF, Grave 155
Memorials:

9 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5056, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Enlisted at Claremont, Tasmania
25 May 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 5056, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
25 May 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 5056, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
25 May 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 5056, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
25 May 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 5056, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
26 Jan 1919:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
25 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 5056, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 6th Military District

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Son of John Charles Oswin and Elizabeth Oswin nee Bennett of Newcastle Street, Perth, WA.

Commenced return to Australia on 7 July 1919 aboard HT Chemnitz disembarking on 5 September 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Hobart.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 3 January 1929 Archibald married Constance Anne Weller in the Methodist Church, New Town, Tasmania