WATERS, George
| Service Number: | 3151 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Morwell, Victoria, Australia, 16 October 1881 |
| Home Town: | Bundamba, Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 12 April 1968, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane |
| Memorials: | Bundamba War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3151, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3151, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3151, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 1 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3151, 41st Infantry Battalion, France - GSW thigh | |
| 14 Jan 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3151, 41st Infantry Battalion, per HT City of York | |
| 7 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3151, 41st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private George Waters (Service No:3151) enlisted in the AIF in December 1916 and served in France with 41st Infantry Battalion. He was hospitalised on two occasions - for Influenza and in 1918 for a GSW (thigh). Private Waters was Discharged in April 1919. George's two sons - Leslie and Cecil served in WWII.
George was born in 1881 in Morwell, Victoria to Patrick Henry Waters (b1846 in Dublin, Ireland) and Mary Jane Thomas (b1852 in Melbourne, Victoria). Patrick had arrived in Port Phillip in January 1856 on board the Phoenix with his mother and five siblings (Patrick's father had emigrated a couple of years earlier). Patrick (a Farmer) and Mary (aka Jane) married in 1872 and settled in the Gippsland Region of Victoria.
George worked as a Farm Labourer in Goornong (Bendigo) Victoria and by 1912 was in Gatton QLD where he married Mary Josephine Cleary (b1892 in Gatton, QLD). George and Mary were living in Bundamba, Ipswich when George enlisted in WWI. The couple then lived in Gatton in the 1920s where George was a Farmer before settling in Toowoomba QLD in the late 1920s where George worked as a Labourer. In the early 1950s George and Mary retired to Brisbane, QLD. Mary died in 1965 and George in 1967.
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