Neil Donald VALLANCE

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Service Number:	673
Enlisted:	16 December 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Second Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company
Born:	Dean, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Traralgon, Latrobe, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fireman
Died:	Victoria, Australia, 24 September 1961, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Cremation service held on 29 September 1961. Interred in the Garden of Remembrance 3 Wall Niches, Section 6, Wall H, Niche 57
Memorials:	Torquay Point Danger War Memorial

16 Dec 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 673, Railway Unit (AIF), Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
19 Feb 1917:	Involvement 673, Railway Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
19 Feb 1917:	Embarked 673, Railway Unit (AIF), HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne
16 Sep 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Second Corporal, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company
19 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Second Corporal, 673, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Alexander Vallance and Elizabeth Vallance nee Baird of Freshwater Creek via Geelong, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 8 July 1919 aboard HT Friedrichsruh disembarking on 1 September 1919,

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1924c Neil married Edie Cook in Victoria