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TILLING, Sydney
| Service Number: | 345 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1915, at Keswick |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kapunda, South Australia, April 1883 |
| Home Town: | Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Australia, 16 July 1953, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 345, 32nd Infantry Battalion, at Keswick | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 345, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 345, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Imprisoned Fromelles (Fleurbaix) | |
| 18 Jul 1919: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), 345 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Sydney Tilling was born in the year 1887, Kapunda, in south Australia. As an adult, he lived in Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia. He worked as a Labourer, and he would spend his time doing jobs that consisted of manual labour. Before he enrolled in the great war, he didn't have any children and wasn’t even married, so leaving for the war wouldn't really affect anybody, except his family.
He enlisted in the AIF on the 26th of July 1915 as a private. After travelling to Egypt and then France, he went into his first major action at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. It would also be his last. He was taken prisoner by the Germans and spent the remainder of the war in various POW camps.
Finally, after the war had finally ended, on the 1st December 1918 he was returned from Germany. And finally, he returned home from the war on the 5th of March, 1919 and was discharged on the 18th of March of the same year.
Sydney Tilling returned from World War 1 alive. He received the 1914/1915 service badge, British war medal no.9816 and the Victory medal no.7753.
Sydney Tilling died in the year 1953 from unknown causes.