LUNN, Willars
| Other Name: | Lunn, Willars Knudsen Hersleb |
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| Service Number: | 619 |
| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Copenhagen, Denmark, 13 April 1892 |
| Home Town: | Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
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World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 619, 1st Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Driver, 619, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Driver, 619, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 12 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 619, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, 2nd MD, medically discharged (illness) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The Minmi Roll of Honour has 79 names inscribed of those who returned home from The Great War.
The 17th name inscribed is #619 Driver Willars Knudsen Hersleb Lunn.
Date of death and place of burial unknown, possibly the U.S.A.?
1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Column, Reg No-619.
Born at Copenhagen, Denmark on the 13th April 1892 to Adam and ? Lunn, Will enlisted on the 24th August 1914, age 22 years 4 months, at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board Transport A8 Argyllshire on the 18th October 1914.
An Original Anzac.
Admitted to hospital 22.11.1915 (lumbago), 14.1.1916 (pleurisy), 16.1.1916 (rheumatism).
Will possibly returned home on the 3rd April 1916, being discharged medically unfit (lumbar neuralgia) on the 12th June 1916.
Received all 3 War Medals.
Not officially commemorated.
A member of the Cardiff Branch Ancient Order of Foresters (Court Cardiff No. 9294). I don't believe that a Roll of Honour was ever produced.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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