Herbert Wallace DREW

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Service Number:	808
Enlisted:	1 August 1915, Warwick Farm, NSW
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps
Born:	Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 9 June 1866
Home Town:	Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling:	Strawberry Hills Public School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Natural Causes, Elliott Heads, Queensland, Australia, 16 April 1958, aged 91 years
Cemetery:	Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland General Section - RSS Grave No: B1115
Memorials:

1 Aug 1915:	Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Private, 808, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Warwick Farm, NSW
20 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 808, 4th Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Te Anau embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
20 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 808, 4th Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, SS Te Anau, Sydney
10 Aug 1919:	Discharged Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Corporal, 808

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Son of Annie and the late Standish DREW, Epping, New South Wales.

Served in Rabaul and contracted malaria fever, recovered and was on duty at the signing of the Armistice.

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