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PRIES, Edward Heinrich
Personal Details
Service Number: | 52586 |
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Enlisted: | 18 December 1917, Perth, Western Australia |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies |
Born: | Busselton, Western Australia, 1 January 1882 |
Home Town: | Northam, Northam, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Snr Postal Assistant |
Died: | Natural Causes, Canning, Western Australia, 17 April 1964, aged 82 years |
Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
Memorials: | Busselton Cenotaph Victoria Square, Busselton Rotary Park of Remembrance Memorial Walk |
Service History
World War 1 Service
18 Dec 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 52586, 5th Divisional Signal Company, Perth, Western Australia | |
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1 May 1918: | Involvement Sapper, 52586, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
1 May 1918: | Embarked Sapper, 52586, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
28 Nov 2019: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 52586, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, Arrived on HT Mahana in Fremantle 25 Sept 1919, medically unfit - Hernia |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Joy Dalgleish
Son of Arthur Robert & Lucy (Guerin) Pries
Father d. 1908 & mother d. 1916
Edward dropped the name Heinrich because of the German overtone.
He married Katherine Byng 1922 in Fremantle, Western Australia.