MULLIN, Vernon Isaac
| Service Number: | 2163 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Northcote, Victoria, Australia, 24 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Malvern, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 18 March 1972, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2163, 7th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2163, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2163, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Vernon Mullin saw active service with the 7th Battalion both on Gallipoli and in France. He was badly wounded during the engagement at Lone Pine. He was evacuated to England with bomb wounds and it would be early 1916 before he rejoined his unit in Egypt. Subsequently at Mouquet Farm on the Somme in 1916 he was again severely injured by bomb shrapnel, and eventually lost the sight in both eyes. He was captured in this wounded state by the Germans on the night of 17 August 1916.
Due to his wounds, he was involved in prisoner swap a few months later and was back in hospital in England by January 1917.
Although rendered totally blind he trained at St. Dunstan’s in England in telephony and was returned to Australia in early 1918.
He was engaged by the Department of Repatriation in 1918 and took up work as a telephone switch attendant. He became popular with the whole staff of the Department and married during 1920.
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