MASTERS, Louis Woodhouse
| Service Number: | 19813 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 8th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Corryong, Victoria, 1886 |
| Home Town: | Corryong, Towong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Corryong, Victoria, 6 June 1967, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Corryong State School No 1309 Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 20 May 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 19813, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 May 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 19813, 8th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Medic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Corryong College
Louis Woodhouse Masters was born in 1886 in the small town of Corryong, Victoria. Louis was brother to Albert Charles Masters who were the children of Father Alfred Masters and Mother Sarah Ann Woodhouse. Louis's religion was Church of England. Before the war he worked as a Stockman.
When Louis was 29 he enlisted to the first AIF in Melbourne, Victoria on the 6th of October 1915. He was given the regimental number 19813. He was put into the 8th Field Artillery Brigade. He left Melbourne on board the HMAT A7 medic on the 20th of May 1916. He was part of the 30th Battery and was given the gunner role in Egypt.
Louis was evacuated from France on October 26th 1917 with loose cartilage in his left knee. He underwent an operation on the 31st of October 1917 where a peice of cartilage was removed from his left knee. Due to his weak knee he was returned to Australia for discharge 15th April 1918