LARKINGS, Michael Patrick
| Service Number: | 65959 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW) |
| Born: | Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, 7 November 1899 |
| Home Town: | Yass, Yass Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jul 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 65959, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW) | |
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| 4 Sep 1918: | Involvement Private, 65959, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Bakara embarkation_ship_number: A41 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Sep 1918: | Embarked Private, 65959, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW), HMAT Bakara, Sydney |
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Enlisted and served under alias George Alexander Cahill
RETURNED SOLDIER'S REJECTION
Served Under Assumed Name
After having travelled to Adelaide the Northern Territory in the hope of joining the A.I.F. Reserve, Mr. M. P. Larkings, an ex-serviceman, was told on Friday that he could not be accepted for military service, because he had served in the Great War under an assumed name. Larkings, who has been working at 761 mile Camp, of the Commonwealth Railways, about 100 miles south of Oodnadatta; said that he enlisted from Yass, in 1918, aged 16 years. He had wanted to join his five brothers at the front, and had assumed the name of George Alexander Cahill.
"Dozens of men have been rejected for the same reason," he said.
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