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Service Number:	1378
Enlisted:	23 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company
Born:	London, England, 1893
Home Town:	Corrimal, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Coal Miner
Memorials:

23 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 1378, Mining Corps, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 1378, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 1378, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 1378, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 1378, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
7 Oct 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, From Mining Corps
27 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 1378, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit

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Next of kin given as his aunt Priscilla Isom of Buxton Road, Upper Edmondton, London, England.

Commenced return to Australia on 25 March 1919 aboard HT Port Denison disembarking on 10 May 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal