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DUFFY, Ormond Clarence
Personal Details
Service Number: | 3645 |
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Enlisted: | 7 September 1915 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Campania, Tasmania, Australia, 31 December 1895 |
Home Town: | Tea Tree, Brighton, Tasmania |
Schooling: | Tea Tree State School, Tasmania, Australia |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 5 August 1916, aged 20 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
7 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3645, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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5 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3645, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
5 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3645, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His younger brother, 172 Pte Raymond Thomas Duffy 40th Battalion AIF, died of wounds at Bullecourt, 14 April 1917. Another brother, 171 Pte Kenneth Duffy, also 40th Battalion, returned to Australia, 31 October 1917, discharged medically unfit with gunshot wounds to the leg.