Colin Walter MARTIN

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MARTIN, Colin Walter

Service Numbers:	28596, S213008
Enlisted:	9 June 1916
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 14 November 1894
Home Town:	North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Adelaide University
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Illness, Australia, 30 September 1942, aged 47 years
Cemetery:	North Road Cemetery, Nailsworth, South Australia Western Extn. Plot. Path 32S. Grave 5266.
Memorials:	Adelaide University of Adelaide WW1 Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, Lower North Adelaide War Memorial WW1, North Adelaide Christ Church Honour Board

World War 1 Service

9 Jun 1916:	Enlisted
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 28596, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 28596, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 28596

World War 2 Service

6 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, S213008
6 Dec 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, S213008
6 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA

World War 1 Service

Date unknown:	Wounded 28596

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Biography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge

Prior to enlisting he was a commissed officer in the ASC, and he joined the ASC in England and was attached to the 3rd Divisional Train in France. Owing to sickness he was taken to hospital at Etaples in May 1918, while there he was wounded in the head and shoulder from bombs droped from an aircraft. he returned to Australia in October 1918, is now recovering, and has started in business as manufacturers' representatives, importer and exporter, at 7 Gresham Street, City (Adelaide), and is agent for patriotic buttons, Phillip's soles, etc etc. Diggers Gazett 1 April 1920 p.45

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Sergeant Martin served with the A.C.M.F. S.A. L. of C. Area Australian Headquarters.

He was 47 and the son of Peter and Fanny Martin, of Norwood. A.C.U.A.

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