STORR, Cyril Milton
| Service Number: | 3493 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Port Broughton, South Australia, 16 April 1894 |
| Home Town: | Port Broughton, Barunga West, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | 24 June 1970, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Port Broughton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3493, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3493, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3493, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide | |
| 19 Feb 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 50th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by tony griffin
Cyril Milton was the son of Robert and Lauretta Eliza (nee Bawden) Storr of Port Broughton.
Cyril was born at Port Broughton in 1894. A blacksmith, he was 21 years old when he enlisted at Keswick on 26 July 1915.
Initially appointed to 11th Reinforcements 10 Battalion Cyril embarked aboard HMAT A24 Benalla on 27 October 1915. At Tel-el-Kebir he was transferred to 50 Battalion and proceeded to France aboard HMT Arcadian on 5 June 1916. As the battalion was waiting to go into the front line near Briedfield Cyril was wounded in the right leg but after treatment rejoined his unit on the same day. In 1917 50 Battalion moved to Belgium where Cyril was wounded on the 9 June, the first day of the battle of Messines. Cyril was invalided to England aboard the hospital ship HS St. David. After recovering he attended the 4th Division Signals School in January 1918 before returning to France where he rejoined 50 Battalion on 8 April. Only 17 days later he was wounded for the third time when he received a gunshot wound to his shoulder at Villers- Bretonneux. This was on Anzac Day 1918. 2 months later he had recovered from his wound and rejoined his unit that had moved north in the vicinity of Aubigny. In action in the front line he was wounded for the fourth time. With wounds to his head and leg he was again invalided to England for treatment and recovery.
Cyril embarked aboard HT Orca at Liverpool for his return to Australia on 19 February 1919 and disembarked in Adelaide on 29 March. He was discharged almost a year later on 5 March 1920.
Cyril's younger brother, Sydney Roy Storr, served with the Australian Army Service Corps and 27 Battalion AIF.
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