Reuben Carr HILDITCH

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Service Number:	4988
Enlisted:	27 August 1917, Enlisted in Adelaide
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Richamond, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Kilkenny, Charles Sturt, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Warehouseman
Died:	14 February 1965, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

27 Aug 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4988, Enlisted in Adelaide
22 Dec 1917:	Involvement Private, 4988, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1917:	Embarked Private, 4988, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
Date unknown:	Wounded 4988, 32nd Infantry Battalion

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Place of abode at the time of death was Prospect, South Australia

Unknown date - Served in Poland

5 December 1916 - Adelaide Recruiting Centre wrote to remind him of having deffered a Hernia operation and if he had time to have it done

30 July 1918 - Wounded in action, shell wound to the face

11 August 1918 - Invalided to UK

17 March 1919 - Returned to Australia on board Plassy

2 October 1924 - Married Elsie Florence Jarvis in St Cuthbert's Church, Prospect