Bert Edward DYSON

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DYSON, Bert Edward

Service Number:	3559
Enlisted:	4 November 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Kempsey, Kempsey, New South Wales
Schooling:	Sherwood Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), South Kempsey Sherwood Public School and District Great War Honour Roll, South Kempsey Sherwood School Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

4 Nov 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3559, 18th Infantry Battalion
20 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3559, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3559, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Bert Dyson enlisted the same day as his Fred Dyson at Holdsworthy, New South Wales during November 1915. Bert was wounded in action at Pozieres during August 1916, which resulted in him being evacuated to England to recover from bomb wounds to the right leg. By February 1917, Bert was back in France with his unit and in May 1917 he was hospitalised twice – once for measles and again for trench fever. He rejoined his battalion on 1 September and was killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917.

His younger brother 3560 Pte. Frederick Arthur Dyson, 54th Battalion AIF, had been killed in action at Fromelles on the 19 July 1916, aged 19.

Another older brother, 2464 Pte. William Stanley Dyson 7th Light Horse Regiment returned to Australia safely during mid-1919.

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