Norman Ellwood HIRST

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Service Numbers:	3704, NX12678
Enlisted:	13 January 1940
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	Australian Water Transport (Small Craft}
Born:	Burwood, New South Wales, 30 December 1886
Home Town:	Breeza, Gunnedah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fireman
Died:	Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, 24 February 1966, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium
Memorials:	Breeza and District War Memorial

24 Jan 1917:	Involvement Private, 3704, 4th Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: ''
24 Jan 1917:	Embarked Private, 3704, 4th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Ayrshire, Sydney

13 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Sapper, Australian Water Transport (Small Craft}
12 Jul 1943:	Discharged Sapper, NX12678, Australian Water Transport (Small Craft}
Date unknown:	Involvement NX12678

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Norman married his wife Rachel Johnston in Scotland on 2nd Dec 1919.

They returned together to Australia aboard the "Themistocles" and set up married life.

By WW2 Norman enrolled again for war on 13 April 1940. His unit number was NX12678 and he was in an engineering unit.

He sailed for the Middle East in Jan 1940 and was involved in building a railway across the desert between Sinai and Palestine and into Egypt.

He died in 1966 in Sydney