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BLACKWELL, John Milton Roy
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 376 |
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Enlisted: | 26 October 1914, Enlisted at Ayr, QLD |
Last Rank: | Trooper |
Last Unit: | 5th Light Horse Regiment |
Born: | Narrabri, New South Wales, 1890 |
Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Hillgrove Public School, Armidale, New South Wales |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey, 28 June 1915 |
Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 11, Row K, Grave 8 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Leichhardt War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Ernest Valentine Blackwell and Janet Mary Blackwell of 'Alberta', Archer Street, Chatswood, NSW; brother of Harold Ernest Rupert Blackwell who died of wounds at Malta on 23 October 1915 while serving with the 19th Battalion
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal