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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Sorrento
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Sorrento
• Family Son of George and Mary Hibbert; seven siblings; his brother Albert also died in WWI; two other brothers, Frank and Jim, also served but survived;
• Education Sorrento State School (1899 - 1906)
• Profession Labourer
• Extra info Commemorated on the Sorrento-Portsea RSL and the Sorrento cenotaph;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 15 July 1915, Melbourne
• Service number 2850
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 7th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Other data related to military career Embarked Melbourne 27 October 1915; to France 25 April 1917

Death

• Wounded 21 August 1916, shrapnel wounds left leg
  4 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds arm, n°2 Canadian CCS
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - F - 3

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