CANE, Wilfred Hastings
| Service Number: | 3524 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 January 1916, at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ardrossan, South Australia, Australia, March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | 29 December 1961, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ardrossan & District WW1 Honor Roll, Ardrossan School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3524, 32nd Infantry Battalion, at Adelaide | |
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| 12 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 3524, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 3524, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide | |
| 15 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 3524, 32nd Infantry Battalion, SW right thigh |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Cane Wilfred Hastings was a soldier who fought in WW1 enlisting in the war in the year 1916, 13th of January. He was born in the small town of Ardrossan, South Australia where he lived with his Mother Ada Emma Cane and Father. His occupation before enlisting in the war was a farmer and after he returned from the war, he went back to farming.
He embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A70 Ballarat. Cane was wounded in action on the 15th of June 1918, with a shrapnel wound to his right thigh, and got discharged on the 23rd of November 1918, he was deemed medically unfit after an encounter with a gun-shot to his right thigh.
He returned to Australia on the 4th of January 1919 with his unit and has won the British War Medal and Victory Medal for his service in the war. He appears on the memorial built in his hometown of Ardrossan, and District WW1 Honour Roll.
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