Wallace GILCHRIST

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Service Number:	2374
Enlisted:	3 August 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	20th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1877
Home Town:	Willoughby, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Postal Worker
Died:	North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1945, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

3 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2374, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
6 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 2374, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
6 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 2374, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney
9 Aug 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 20th Infantry Battalion, In France
9 May 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2374, 20th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to Asthma

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Son of Archibald and Hadassa Gilchrist of NSW

Husband of Ethel M. Gilchrist nee Barratt of Frenchs Road, Willoughby, NSW. Wallace and Ethel married in Sydney, NSW during 1913

Commenced return to Australia on 13 February 1917 aboard HT Benalla disembarking on the 31 March 1917

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal