LYNALL, George Sylvester
| Service Number: | 6854 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 January 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 27 February 1886 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Brunswick Central State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Electroplater |
| Died: | Killed in action, Bellicourt, France, 3 October 1918, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bellicourt British Cemetery Plot IV, Row N, Grave No. 4. A TOKEN OF LOVE TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND DUTY NOBLY DONE |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor, Boulder Roll of Honour Board, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6854, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 6854, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 6854, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of George Charlton Peters Lynall and the late Florence Lynall; husband of Florence Olivia Lynall, of 119, Dwyer St., Boulder, Western Australia.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
George Sylvester Lynall was born in Birmingham, England in 1886. His family came to Australia a few years later when George was three years of age. They settled in Brunswick, Victoria and George attended school there.
George’s mother passed away in 1906, when he was 20 years of age. At some stage before the war, he moved to the goldfields of Western Australia, and seemed to have at least one sister in Boulder, Western Australia.
He attended the Kalgoorlie School of Mines and the Boulder Technical College where he studied as a draughtsman. He was married to a local girl, Florence Olivia Cromie during 1914. He stated he was working as an electroplater.
His only brother, 3328 Pte. Frank Edgar Parks Lynall 5th Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Pozieres on 25 July 1916, age 23.
George enlisted in early 1917 and arrived in England during August 1917, joining the 28th Battalion in Belgium on 4 January 1918. He was killed in action near Bellicourt on 3 October 1918, in the last battle of the AIF on the Western Front.
The Kalgoorlie Miner reported his death during October 1918.
“Mrs. G. S. Lynall, of 119 Dwyer Street, Boulder, received through the Rev. R. R. Fleming the sad news that her husband, Private G. S. Lynall, of the 28th Battalion, was killed in action on October 3. The late Private Lynall was a brother to Mrs. J. Angwin, of Chaffers Street, and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cromie, of Dwyer Street, Boulder. Prior to enlisting, in January, 1917, the fallen soldier was employed on the Ivanhoe mine for several years, and had made a host of friends in Boulder, who extend their sympathy to his relatives here, and also to his aged father in Melbourne, who has lost his two sons in the cause of the Empire.”
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