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AYTON, Phillip Owen
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 129 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1914, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Nillumbik, Melbourne, Victoria, 26 April 1889 |
| Home Town: | Warrandyte, Manningham, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Locomotive Driver |
| Died: | Natural causes, Carnegie, Victoria, Australia, 1 October 1946, aged 57 years |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremated |
| Memorials: |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 129, 1st Field Company Engineers, Sydney | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sapper, 129, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sapper, 129, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 129, 1st Field Company Engineers, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 27 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 129, 1st Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shrapnell wound to leg and transferred to hospital ship 'Galeka'and evacuated in HMAT "Seang Choon' to Alexandria and then to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital at Mena Camp. | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 28 Mar 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 10 May 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 1 Jun 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 28 Nov 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
| 9 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Field Company Engineers |
Personal Stories
Lt Phillip Owen Ayton
Lt Phillip Owen Ayton, Father, Joseph Ayton, Warrandyte, Victoria enlisted into the
1st Field Company Engineers 20/4/1914 as a Private. By the end of WWI he was a Lieutenant. Recently his WWI diary as been written published as "A hell of a time, An Australian soldiers diary of the First World War, Phillip Own Ayton and Elvala Ayton.
Submitted 27 April 2019 by Evan Evans
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