DANIEL, John Hamlyn
| Service Number: | 2905 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia, 20 January 1889 |
| Home Town: | Mount Barker, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Barker Primary School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 March 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial and at Mount Barker Cemetery (memorial only) Old Section plot 247, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Barker Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Roll of Honor, Mount Barker War Memorial, Mount Pleasant District Memorial, Mount Pleasant Pictorial Honour Roll, Mount Pleasant Roll of Honor, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2905, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2905, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Mar 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2905, 32nd Infantry Battalion, The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, KIA 5 March 1917 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paula Bartsch
Enlisted 22 February 1916 at Adelaide, South Australia.
Unit embarked 30 June 1916 per Huntsend.
Served in France. Wounded 8 September 1916, with bullet wound in left arm. Rejoined Unit 22 September 1916.
Suffered trench feet 2 December 1916. Rejoined Unit 22 December 1916.
Killed in action 5 March 1917 at Flers near Bapaume, France.
Commemorated Villers-Bretonneaux Memorial, pictured on the Mount Pleasant Honor Board within the Mount Pleasant Soldiers' Memorial Hall, Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church Honor Board and the Mount Pleasant Anglican Church Honor Board.
John was a reporter for the Mount Barker Courier and was at the Mount Pleasant office as Manager, at the time of his enlistment. He regularly wrote home and these letters were printed in The Courier, giving an insight to his service.
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