Lawrence ESCHNER

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Service Numbers:	4783, SN 4783
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Edithburgh, South Australia, 25 May 1890
Home Town:	Largs Bay, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 4 July 1918, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy St Pierre, Amiens, Picardie, France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coomandook Roll of Honour, Edithburgh WW2 Roll of Honor, Loxton Soldiers Memorial Rotunda, Yorketown War Memorial, Yorketown and District of Melville Roll of Honour

23 Jun 1917:	Involvement Private, 4783, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
23 Jun 1917:	Embarked Private, 4783, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide
4 Jul 1918:	Involvement Corporal, 4783, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4783 awm_unit: 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-07-04
4 Jul 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, SN 4783, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Died of wounds at the 5th Clearing Station the same day

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Son of Friederich Augast Eschner and Emma Heinrich

Brother of Ewald, Johannes, Olga, Meta, Dorothea, Cora, Vera, Fritz, Rita, Frida, Edna and Lewis

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