John Henry (Jack) AUSTIN

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AUSTIN, John Henry

Service Number:	8730
Enlisted:	15 September 1915
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	4th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Patersonia, Launceston, Tasmania , 7 August 1886
Home Town:	Lilydale North, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 2 October 1933, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

15 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 8730, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column

World War 1 Service

16 Nov 1915:	Involvement Gunner, 8730, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Macquarie embarkation_ship_number: A39 public_note: ''
16 Nov 1915:	Embarked Gunner, 8730, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Port Macquarie, Melbourne
10 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 22nd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
25 Oct 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 8730, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, France - Gassed
25 Feb 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 8730, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, per Balmoral Castle
21 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 8730, 4th Field Artillery Brigade

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Driver John Henry Austin (Service No:8730) enlisted in the AIF on 15 September 1915 as a Gunner attached to 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column. Gunner Austin embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT 39 Port Melbourne on 16 November 1915 and on 10 March 1916 was transferrd to 22nd Howitzer Brigade (4th Artillery Brigade). Gunner Austin was WiA (gassed) in France on 25 October 1917 and embarked for the RTA on board Balmoral Castle. Driver Austin was Discharged on 21 June 1919.

Born in 1886 at Pattersonia in Launceston Tasmania, Jack was the fourth of seven children of George Austin (b1846 in Campbell Town, Tasmania) and second wife Elizabeth Ann Kettle (b1863 in Launceston, Tasmania). George (a Labourer) and Elizabeth married in 1882 in Launceston, Tasmania. George and Elizabeth settled at Turner's Marsh in Lilydale where George was a Farmer.

Jack worked as a Labourer and on his death, local newspapers reported 'Mr Austin served during the Great War with the 10th Howitzer Battery, and was badly gassed in France. He had not neen in good health for a considerable time (Trove; 1933).

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