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NORTHCOTT, John

Service Number:	32
Enlisted:	24 August 1914, 6 years 9th ALH, as Regt Capt & Adjutant, also in AR9 staff for 2 years as a Lieutenant
Last Rank:	Lieutenant General
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Creswick, Victoria, 24 March 1890
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Dean State School and Grenville College, Ballarat
Occupation:	soldier
Died:	Wahroonga, Sydney, NSW, 4 August 1966, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Hobart Roll of Honour, Lindisfarne Officers of the 12th Battalion Pictorial Honour Roll

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

WWI: On the morning of 25 April 1915 the 12th landed at Ari Burnu (Anzac Cove), Gallipoli. Almost immediately, Northcott was wounded in the chest by a rifle bullet. He was evacuated to Alexandria, Egypt, and thence to England, and took no further part in the war.

Promoted

Major 1/10/1923

Lt Colonel 1/1/1936

Colonel 13/10/1939

Maj Genral 1/7/1940

WWII: In 1944 Lieutenant General John Northcott CB MVO, Chief of General Staff, Australian Military Forces.

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