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BLIGH, Edmund Parnell
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 380 |
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| 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 |
Service History
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: '' | |
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| 18 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 380, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 9 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 31st Infantry Battalion |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography 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.