DOCKER, Norman
| Service Number: | 916 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Coogee, Randwick, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electrical Mechanic |
| Died: | Killed in action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 11 October 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 1, Row D, Grave 8 Rev. Father Fahey officiated, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 916, Enlisted at Sydney | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 916, 3rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 916, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 26 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 916, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Gunshot wound to the forearm |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Heny James and Cicy Docker of Long Bay Road, Coogee, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Norman Docker was the son of Henry James and Susan Docker of Coogee, NSW. His older brother, 4376 Pte. Henry James Docker Australian Army Medical Corps was killed in action in Belgium, on the 4 October 1917, aged 28, almost two years after Norman’s death.
Norman was an original member of the 3rd Battalion and enlisting in August 1914, was among the first Australians to don the khaki. Norman was wounded on the day after the Anzac landing, on 26 April 1915. He was shot in the left forearm and taken off Gallipoli to the hospital ship ‘Galeka’.
He was shipped straight to England, arriving there on 12 May 1915. He was admitted to a General Hospital in Birmingham. After over three months recovering, he was shipped back to Gallipoli from England, joining his unit again on 6 September 1915.
According to Norman’s Red Cross wounded and missing file, Norman was hit in the head by a sniper whilst in a listening post to the right of Lone Pine, at Pope’s Ridge. He was buried in the Shell Green Cemetery.
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