Douglas Bruce BLACK

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BLACK, Douglas Bruce

Service Number:	64799
Enlisted:	25 June 1918
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Mooroolbark, Victoria, Australia, 20 July 1898
Home Town:	Pakenham, Cardinia, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Orchardist
Died:	Cerebro Spinal Fever, Egypt, 13 December 1918, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Grave Q. 179., Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

25 Jun 1918:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
Date unknown:	Involvement Trooper, 64799

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Three of his brothers also served in WW1 –

Corporal Robert Livingstone Conning Black-Service Number 5985

Died 09/08/1918 at age 24-7th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Interred: HEATH CEMETERY, HARBONNIERES II. I. 15.

Donald Caldwell BLACK (SN 7302 & Wallace Moncrief BLACk (SN7451) - Donald & Wallace both returned to Australia in 1919 - whilst the 4 brothers were fighting overseas the family farm was being run by another brother Thomas Fergus Black.

They were sons of Thomas Montgomery Black and Margaret Helen Black, of Pakenham, Upper Victoria, Australia.

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