David Samuel EMMERTON

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Service Number:	1800
Enlisted:	8 June 1915, Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Stanley, Tasmania, Australia, 8 January 1879
Home Town:	Smithton, Circular Head, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 29 July 1916, aged 37 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Stanley Circular Head War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

8 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Claremont, Tasmania
17 Jul 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1800, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
17 Jul 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1800, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne

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"IN MEMORIAM.

EMMERTON. — Killed in action in France, July 28, 1916, Private D. S. Emmerton, Forrest, aged 37 years.

Sadly a sister is thinking

Of her soldier brother brave,

Who fell for the cause of freedom

And rests in a hero's grave.

Somewhere in France they laid him,

Our darling so young and brave;

Far away from the land of the wattle,

With no loved ones to weep on his grave.

Home town of Forest, located between Smithton and Stanley, Tasmania.