Samuel Shaw TEMPLETON

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TEMPLETON, Samuel Shaw

Service Number:	5757
Enlisted:	22 November 1915
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Queensland, Australia, 7 September 1879
Home Town:	New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clothing Examiner, Storekeeper
Died:	New Farm, Queensland, Australia, 8 January 1951, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
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World War 1 Service

22 Nov 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5757, 15th Infantry Battalion
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 5757, 15th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
4 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 5757, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Brisbane
27 Apr 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 15th Infantry Battalion
25 Jan 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 5757, 15th Infantry Battalion, Embarked from France to England and admitted to Southwark Military Hospital suffering severe Pyrexia (trench fever).
12 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 5757, 15th Infantry Battalion, Embarked from England aboard H.T. Commonwealth for return to Australia, discharged 12 Jun 1919.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Samuel Shaw Templeton was born on 7 Sep 1879 in Queensland, a son to William Templeton and Grace Templeton (nee Murray). He married Mabel Bonella Lewis on 30 Aug 1919 in Brisbane.

He served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1. First service was as a Private S.N. 372 in the 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War. Second service was as a Private rising to Lance Corporal S.N. 5757 in the 15th Infantry Battalion AIF, WW1.

(sources- AWM Boer War Nominl Roll, Murray p. 486; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).

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