David Harper ANTON

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Service Number:	723
Enlisted:	22 March 1916, Sale, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	37th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sale, Victoria, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Fernbank, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 1921
Cemetery:	Bairnsdale Public Cemetery, Victoria Presbyterian Section
Memorials:

22 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 723, 37th Infantry Battalion, Sale, Victoria
3 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 723, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
3 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 723, 37th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Persic, Melbourne
24 Sep 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 723, 37th Infantry Battalion

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David Harper ANTON was born in Sale, Victoria in 1891

His parents were David ANTON & Flora Elizabeth HARPER

He enlisted in Sale on 22nd March, 1916 and embarked with the 37th Infantry Battalion, B Company on 3rd June, 1916 from Melbourne on the HMAT Persic

He returned to Australia on 4th May, 1917 with rheumatic problems & pleurisy and was discharged on 24th September, 1917

David died in Bairnsdale, Victoria in 1921 & is buried in the Bairnsdale General Cemetery, Presbyterian Section