Victor Herbert MERCER

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MERCER, Victor Herbert

Service Number:	209
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Sydney
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Auckland, New Zealand, 13 April 1894
Home Town:	Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Engineer
Died:	Typhoid Fever, Bowral Hospital, Bowral Wingecarribee Shire New South Wales, Australia, 29 February 1916, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Bowral General Cemetery, NSW Plot: Church of England, Row 4, Grave 18
Memorials:	Kogarah Pictorial Honour Roll No.1

World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, Sydney
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
29 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
2 May 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW left wrist (severe)
5 Jul 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT A70 Ballarat, Port Suez, invalided to Australia - arriving 6 August 1915.
17 Jan 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 209, 4th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit
7 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, 209, Sydney, Recruiting Sergeant, Australian Military Forces (Citizen Forces).

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Victor enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 17 August 1914. He served with the 4th Infantry Battalion (Private, Service No. 209) at Gallipoli. He was wounded in action on 8 May 1915. He returned to Australia on 6 August 1915 and was discharged medically unfit on 17 January 1916. He was re-attested for Home Defence as a Recruiting Sergeant on 7 February 1916. He died, aged 21 years. He was the son of Cecil Walter Mercer (Died 1948) and Ann Mercer (Died 1949).

He is a recent addition to the Roll of Great War dead; he was accepted for commemoration on 3 March 2017.

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