Andrew SPALDING

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Service Number:	1650
Enlisted:	9 October 1916, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	55th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Ryde, Ryde, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Moulder
Died:	Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 20 September 1947, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

9 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1650, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
12 Oct 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Bombardier, Light Trench Mortar Batteries
9 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 1650, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
9 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 1650, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
6 Feb 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, 55th Infantry Battalion, From the Light Trench Mortar Batteries
8 Aug 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, 1650, 55th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit

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Address at the time of enlistment was C/- of his sister Nellie Nash of Champion Road, Tennyson, Ryde, NSW

Son of William Spalding and Ann Spalding of Balmain, NSW

Next of kin given as his brother William Spalding of 15 Merton Street, Rozelle, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 4 May 1917 aboard HMAT Miltiades disembarking on the 5 July 1917

During 1918c Andrew married Ellen A. Joyce in Balmain South, NSW

Medal: British War Medal