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FOX, John

Service Numbers:	22, 16480
Enlisted:	11 December 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Field Company Engineers
Born:	Kapunda, South Australia, 1874
Home Town:	Longreach, Longreach, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Saddler
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 14 September 1940, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland Commemorated with a plaque in the QLD Garden of Remembrance
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World War 1 Service

28 Nov 1914:	Involvement Private, 22, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Eastern embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
28 Nov 1914:	Embarked Private, 22, 2nd Infantry Battalion, SS Eastern, Sydney
11 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 22, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps
4 Feb 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 22, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Naval and Military Forces - Special Tropical Corps, Discharged at the 2nd Military District
11 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 16480, Reinforcements WW1, Enlisted at Longreach, QLD
9 Jun 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 2nd Field Company Engineers, From reinforcements
2 Dec 1916:	Embarked Driver, 16480, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Orsova, Sydney
2 Dec 1916:	Involvement Driver, 16480, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
1 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 16480, 2nd Field Company Engineers, Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit due to Rheumatism

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Next of kin originally given as his step brother John Nelligan of Ovingham, Adelaide, SA

Served a five year saddlery apprenticeship with George May of Kapunda, SA

Returned to Australia (first time) on 21 January 1916 aboard SS Morinda

Next of kin later changed to his wife Lily Fox of 32 Warwick Street, Hurstville, NSW

Commenced return to Australia (second time) on 4 January 1919 aboard HT Morvada disembarking on 20 February 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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