George Ernest VOLK

George Ernest VOLK Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

Service Number:	1867
Enlisted:	13 July 1915, Enlisted at Bendigo, Victoria
Last Rank:	Second Corporal
Last Unit:	5th Divisional Signal Company
Born:	Maryborough, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Maryborough, Central Goldfields, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	St. Vincent Hospital, Melbourne,Victoria, Australia, 7 October 1959, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Church of England, Row C, Grave 620
Memorials:	Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1

13 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 1867, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, Enlisted at Bendigo, Victoria
10 Nov 1915:	Embarked Sapper, 1867, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
10 Nov 1915:	Involvement Sapper, 1867, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
9 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 5th Divisional Signal Company, From 3rd Divisional Signal Company
16 May 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1867, 5th Divisional Signal Company, Gassed.
6 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1867, 5th Divisional Signal Company, Second occasion. Gassed.
25 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Second Corporal, 1867, 5th Divisional Signal Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

Help us honour George Ernest Volk's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Son of George Volk and Sarah Ellen Volk nee Kaye of Burke Street, Maryborough, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 13 April 1919 aboard HT Wyeema dsiembarking on 31 May 1919

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1921c George married Mabel Hastings in Victoria. Address at the time of death was Collins Street, Preston, Victoria