Eric Robert GARRIOCK

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GARRIOCK, Eric Robert

Service Number:	11480
Enlisted:	13 September 1915
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	104th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery
Born:	Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, 19 April 1897
Home Town:	Balmain, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Birchgrove Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Plumber - NSW Gov. Railways
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 15 September 1917, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Birr Cross Roads Cemetery Plot I, Row G, Grave I
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board

World War 1 Service

13 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 11480
15 Jan 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 11480, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
15 Jan 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 11480, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , RMS Osterley, Sydney
19 Feb 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 11480, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, in Zeitoun
10 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 11480, 104th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery
16 Dec 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 11480, 4th Field Artillery Brigade
17 Dec 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 11480, 104th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery, detached from 4th Field Artillery Brigade, France

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Eric Robert GARRIOCK, (Service Number 11480) was born on 19 April 1897 at Cootamundra. He began working at the Railways on 21 January 1914 at Eveleigh Workshops, as an apprentice in the locomotive branch. By April 1914, he had changed from an apprentice to a gasfitter, and he would remain in this position until 13 September 1915, when he joined the AIF at the age of 18. He embarked on 15 January 1916 from Sydney, on the RMS ‘Osterley’.

He was killed in action in Belgium on 15 September 1917, at the age of 20. He was buried in Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium.

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