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OSBORNE, Ray Foster
Personal Details
Service Number: | 247 |
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Enlisted: | 16 September 1914, Woomelang, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Paskeville, South Australia, 3 December 1889 |
Home Town: | Woomelang, Yarriambiack, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 19 May 1915, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey, 4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 1 Service
16 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Woomelang, Victoria | |
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22 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 247, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
22 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 247, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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"BEREAVEMENT NOTICE.
MR and MRS S. U. OSBORNE, of Mildura wish to thank their friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their sad loss of their brother, Private Ray Foster Osborne, killed in action at the Dardanelles." - from the Mildura Cultivator 26 Jun 1915 (nla.gov.au)