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TANKARD, Oswold James (Oswald James)
Personal Details
Service Number: | 971 |
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Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Enlisted at Echuca, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
Home Town: | Echuca, Campaspe, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial Panel 29, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Echuca War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
Service History
World War 1 Service
19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 971, 7th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Echuca, Victoria | |
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19 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 971, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
12 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 971, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Killed vicinity of North Beach (7th Bn Landing site) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Birth name appears to be Oscar James Tankard and his mother as Mary Eliza Tankard nee Fuller
Mrs M.E. Tankard of Echuca Street, Moama, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal