LAYCOCK, Joseph Harold
| Service Number: | 37 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Devonport Tasmania, Australia , March 1893 |
| Home Town: | Devonport, Devonport, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Eliza Purdon Home for the Aged, Ulverstone, Tasmania, 12 April 1986, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 37, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 37, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 37, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart | |
| 29 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 37, 12th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
One of the North-West Coast's few surviving original ANZACs Mr. Joseph Harold (Till) Laycock, died yesterday.
Mr. Laycock, formerly of Devonport, and lately of the Eliza Purton Home for the Aged, at Ulverstone, was aged 93.
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces at the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914 as an infantryman and fought with the 12th Battalion in Gallipoli and in France.
On his discharge from the Army in 1918, Mr Laycock returned to Deveonport and became one of the founding members of the Devonport sub-branch of the Returned Services League.
He was a well-known and well-respected member of the Devonport R.S.L. and general community.
Mr Laycock worked as a senior grocer with the old Don River Trading Company in Devonport all his working life.
When he retired he continued to live in Devonport till failing health caused him to move to the Eliza Purton Home of the Aged last year.
Mr Laycock had attended every Anzac Day march since 1919 except for the one held prior to his death.
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