Victor Aleck John WHALLIN MM

Badge Number: 5155, Sub Branch: Renmark
5155

WHALLIN, Victor Aleck John

    Service Number: 12831
    Enlisted: 10 February 1916, Keswick Barracks, Keswick City of West Torrens South Australia
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 11th Field Ambulance
    Born: Port Adelaide, South Australia, December 1894
    Home Town: Henley Beach , City of Charles Sturt / Henley and Grange, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Clerk
    Died: Renmark, South Australia, 17 July 1953, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Renmark Old Cemetery, South Australia
    Old RC Section Plot 63
    Memorials: Adelaide Christian Brothers' College WW1 Roll of Honor, Henley Beach Council WW1 Service Roll, Somerton Park Sacred Heart College Men of "The Marist Brothers Old Scholars Association" Honor Roll WW1
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    World War 1 Service

    10 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Keswick Barracks, Keswick City of West Torrens South Australia
    31 May 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 12831, 11th Field Ambulance, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

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    31 May 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 12831, 11th Field Ambulance, HMAT Suevic, Adelaide
    7 Jun 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 12831, 11th Field Ambulance, Battle of Messines
    6 Jul 1917: Honoured Military Medal, Battle of Messines, 'On the afternoon of 6th July, 1917, at GOOSEBERRY FARM Advanced Dressing Station, near MESSINES, Private WOOD was one of a party of stretcher bearers carrying cases from the Advanced Dressing Station to a waiting ambulance about 400 yards away. Owing to the heavy shelling in progress the motor ambulance was unable to approach closer. After loading the cases the ambulance proceeded down the road until it was blocked by a quantity of sleepers and debris thrown onto the track by a shell exploding near by. As the shelling was still continuing the car retired and Private WHALLIN went forward with Private WOOD and under fire they cleared the road sufficiently to enable the motor ambulance to get through. They signalled the ambulance to come on and continued their work of clearing the road until the last moment, when they swung into the moving ambulance as it went past. The work was carried out with a total disregard to personal safety and enabled the patients to be moved from a particularly dangerous spot as the enemy was shelling the whole road and delay might easily have resulted in disaster.'
    Date unknown: Wounded 12831, 11th Field Ambulance

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    Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

    Son of J WHALLIN

    Of 'Nizza' Henley Beach, SA

     

    Death registered as Victor Alec John WHALLIN aged 59 years

    Surname: WHALLIN

    Given Names: Victor Alec John
    Date: 1953-07-16
    Sex: M
    Age: 59y
    Status: M
    Relative:
    Relative 2:
    Residence: Renmark
    Death Place: Renmark
    District Code: Mur
    Symbol: H
    Book: 799
    Page: 3759
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