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Service Number:	3361
Enlisted:	2 June 1916, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	42nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Charters Towers, Queensland, 1889
Home Town:	Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland
Schooling:	Charters Towers Grammar School
Occupation:	Locomotive Engine Driver
Died:	Died of wounds, Albert, France, 9 September 1918
Cemetery:	Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot V111, Row E, Grave 21, Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Dernancourt, Picardie, France
Memorials:	42nd Infantry Battalion AIF Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

2 Jun 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 3361, Brisbane, Queensland
14 Jun 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 3361, 42nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1
14 Jun 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, SN 3361, 42nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
6 Sep 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, SN 3361, 42nd Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", GSW (right arm, neck and lung)
9 Sep 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, SN 3361, 42nd Infantry Battalion

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Son of Angelo Raffaele (Pasquale) Nigro and Ellen Josephine Nigro of Mallon Street, Bowen Hills, QLD

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Also served in the Kennedy Regiment, Citizen Military Forces at Charters Towers for 8 years

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