
PILLION, Patrick James
Service Number: | 3663 |
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Enlisted: | 27 April 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Mambray Creek, South Australia, Australia, 3 May 1883 |
Home Town: | Mambray Creek, Mount Remarkable, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Teamster |
Died: | Died of wounds, 45th Casualty Clearing Station, France, 6 March 1917, aged 33 years |
Cemetery: |
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot V1, Row B, Grave 40 Rev. E.J. Penistan officiated Headstone inscription reads: In loving memory of the beloved son of Maurice and Mary A. Pillion. R.I.P., Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Dernancourt, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Germein War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
27 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3663, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
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12 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 3663, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
12 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 3663, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide | |
5 Mar 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3663, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Shell wounds to legs, hands and right buttock |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Maurice Pillion and Mary (nee Donovan) Pillion of Mambray Creek, SA; brother of Mary Pillion, John Edmund Pillion, Mary Agnes Pillion, Hannah Stacey Pillion, Timothy David Pillion, Thomas Gregory Francis Pillion, Clair Aloysius Pillion and Vincent Dominick Pillion. Clair and Vincent were twins
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal