FOURTER, Michael Isadore
| Service Numbers: | 6524, N380517 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 December 1916, Liverpool NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Greigs Flat, Eden, New South Wales, 9 February 1898 |
| Home Town: | Eden, Bega Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dairy farm hand |
| Died: | Road Accident, Eden, New South Wales, 17 September 1981, aged 83 years |
| Cemetery: |
Eden General Cemetery, NSW |
| Memorials: | Eden and District War Memorial, Pambula District Soldiers Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Liverpool NSW | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6524, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6524, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N380517 |
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"One ex-serviceman who was sadly missed...was Michael (Old Mick) Fourter, who was accidentally killed while walking...at the age of 83 years. Mick had attended every ANZAC Day march and gathering after since its inception. He will be remembered by his many friends as a consistent Tail bettor at that favourite Australian game. He was born in Nethercote in 1898 and joined the AIF at the age of 18 years. He was wounded in France at the battle of Passchendaele in October 1917. In this battle there were some 5,000 casualties and it was estimated that the Germans had lost about the same amount.
After recuperating in England Mick returned home to Nethercote where he worked on the family farm. He married and reared a family of five children, then moved to Shadrack’s Creek, just south of Eden and established a dairy farm. While running the farm, Mick also conducted the Eden milk Supply. Later the farm was changed into what is now the Seaview Caravan Park. Never afraid to ‘have a go’ Mick was a familiar figure at local charity and fundraising days, wood chops etc, and his call of ‘you pick’em we pay’em’ is still vividly remembered by those of his generation. Mick Fourter, RIP." - from the Magnet Newspaper (1981)