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WISHART, Norman McLeod
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 740 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Army Ordnance Corps AIF |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 May 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Camon Communal Cemetery Grave 10 Headstone Inscription "OUR LOVED BROTHER DUTY NOBLY DONE", Camon Communal Cemetery, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Goldfields First Enlistments WWI Roll of Honor, St. Kilda East All Saints Anglican Church Mausoleum Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 740, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 740, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 2 May 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 740, Army Ordnance Corps AIF, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 740 awm_unit: Australian Army Ordnance Corps awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-05-02 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of John and Alice WISHART. Native of Victoria, Australia.
Details of Death
On the 2nd May 1918 he and five others were sleeping in a schoolroom six miles behind the lines; when a long distance enemy shell penetrated their billet and killed them all. They were buried in a beautiful old French cemetery which is, and always will be, a recognised French civilian cemetery, at Camon, in the Somme Valley, about three miles east of the Amiens Cathedral.
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