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NEEFS, Joseph
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2208 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Antwerp, Belgium, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Bagtown, Griffith, New South Wales, Australia , 1919, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 30 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2208, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2208, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2208, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The 155 men of the 6th reinforcements to the 4th Battalion embarked from Sydney on 16 June 1915. They stopped at Fremantle on the way and they disembarked in Egypt on the 21st July and only two weeks later the bulk of them landed the at Anzac to reinforce the 4th Battalion. No time for training.
They landed at Gallipoli on the 4 August 1915. Joseph Neefs was badly wounded in the abdomen during the Battle of Lone Pine. He was evacuated to Malta and returned to Australia March 1916.
He died at Bagtown, near Griffith NSW, in December 1919. His sister in Antwerp Belgium was his only known relative.