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DAVIS, James Wilfred Percival Campbell

Service Number:	572
Enlisted:	22 August 1914, E Company
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Penrith, NSW, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	railway porter
Died:	bronchopneumonia, Concord, NSW, Australia, 15 December 1966
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW East Terrace, Area 3, Wall 18 (Lat/Lng -33.79517, 151.15427)
Memorials:	Haymarket Railways Traffic Branch Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

22 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 572, 1st Infantry Battalion, E Company
18 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 572, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
18 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 572, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney
20 Jun 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Infantry Battalion, E Coy
6 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 572, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Gunshot wound to right eye
14 Nov 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 572, 1st Infantry Battalion, Discharged medically unfit after losing right eye, as a result of a gunshot wound.

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