Edmund Parnell (Teddy) BLIGH

BLIGH, Edmund Parnell

Service Number: 380
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 31st Infantry Battalion
Born: Charleville, Queensland, Australia, October 1884
Home Town: Dalby, Western Downs, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Reporter and Printer, Beaudesert Times, previously Dalby Herald
Died: Killed in Action, France, 10 April 1918
Cemetery: Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France
Plot III, Row S, Grave number 20.
Memorials: Beaudesert War Memorial, Dalby 'The Fallen' Honour Board, Dalby War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

18 May 1916: Involvement Private, 380, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
18 May 1916: Embarked Private, 380, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney
9 Oct 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 31st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Ken Bull

His effects were on the "Barunga" which was lost at sea. After initially working at the Dalby Herald and the Dalby Leader in Queensland, he spent two years living and working in Fiji, then returned to the Dalby Herald before moving to Beaudesert in 1915.