KERR, George Ernest
| Service Number: | 888 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 September 1914, An Original of G Company |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 888, 14th Infantry Battalion, An Original of G Company | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 888, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 888, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 8 Aug 1915: | Imprisoned The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
He was with a party of about a dozen men of the 14th Battalion, led by Lieutenant Luscombe, who were captured by the Turks while trying to attack Hill 971 on the 8 August 1915. and wounded in the eye. On 24 August 1915, the Red Crescent Society in Constantinople advised the Australian authorities that he was a Prisoner of War. On 21 February, they were informed that he was interned at Bazanti Terminus of the Anatolian Railways, close to the Taurus Mountains. He was interned there for the duration of the war and repatriated from Turkey at Port Said, arriving in England on the 20 March 1919.
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