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LAURIE, Andrew Joseph Bruce

Service Numbers:	329, N102256
Enlisted:	3 February 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Copeland, Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia , 2 March 1891
Home Town:	Gloucester, Gloucester Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grazier
Died:	Natural causes, Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia, 19 December 1975, aged 84 years
Cemetery:	Gloucester General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia Presbyterian Section
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World War 1 Service

16 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 329, 1st Machine Gun Company, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
16 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 329, 1st Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
6 May 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 329, 1st Machine Gun Company, Bullecourt (First), Shrapnel wound right ankle
14 Nov 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 329, 1st Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, Gassed
6 Jan 1919:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Machine Gun Battalion
6 Apr 1919:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Machine Gun Battalion
9 May 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant
31 May 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , HT Aeneas, England for return to Australia - arriving Melbourne on 12 July 1919 thence by rail to NSW.
17 Jun 1919:	Honoured Military Medal, "The Last Hundred Days", For courage and devotion to duty near Hargicourt from 18/21 September 1918 - as section runner he twice volunteered and ran for stretcher bearers and guided parties to Aid Posts under heavy shell fire. On the morning of 21 September he ran back to the Company ammunition dumps through an exceptionally hostile barrage and maintained supplies at the guns at a critical time.
28 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Machine Gun Battalion

World War 2 Service

3 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N102256

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