DORAN, Victor Frederick
| Service Number: | 2470 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Midland Junction, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Echuca State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 11 June 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Fremantle National Bank of Western Australasia Ltd. Roll of Honour, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Midland WW1 Clock Tower & Town Hall Memorial, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2470, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 18 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2470, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Chilka embarkation_ship_number: A51 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2470, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Chilka, Fremantle | |
| 11 Jun 1917: | Involvement Second Lieutenant, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 16 Battalion awm_rank: Second Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-06-11 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Victor was the son of Joseph Teran Doran and Annie May Theresa Doran, of Midland Junction, Western Australia. He was born in Echuca, Victoria, Australia.
His younger brother, 3101 Pte. Albert Philip Doran 48th Battalion AIF was killed in action at Passchendaele on 12 October 1917, aged 24.
Victor was a bank officer with the National Bank in Midland Junction, Western Australia when he enlisted.
He joined the 16th Battalion on Gallipoli on 2 August 1915 and was severely wounded in both thighs less than a week later. He was evacuated to Egypt but rejoined his unit in time for the evacuation of Anzac.
Victor was promoted to Corporal then Sergeant during early 1916, then to Second Lieutenant during February 1917.His service file states he was killed in action in Belgium on 11 June 1917, but there are no details or record of burial and his grave remains lost.
Victor left a will in favour of his mother.
During 1919 a brass tablet was placed and dedicated in the Midland Junction Presbyterian Church to pay tribute to the Doran brothers from their parents. The Doran tablet bears their names, service details and the inscription: "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
The parents returned to Victoria at some stage after the war. The mother, Annie May Therese Doran, passed away in 1938 and is buried in the Bendigo Cemetery. The memorial death plaques issued in memory of her two sons who both died in 1917, are attached to her headstone.
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