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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Ballarat
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of Emma and James Orr, of 103, Lyons St., Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. One brother: George Ernest (was on active service for two years) One sister: Beatrice Maud
• Education Educated at the Pleasant Street SS
  Scholar at St Andrew’s Sunday School [St Andrew’s Branch Sunday School]
  
• Profession Carpenter

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 7 July 1915
• Service number 5657
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 5th Bn. Australian Pioneers
• Other data related to military career 17 July 1915 to 9 December 1915 14th Depot Battalion Ballarat; 27 February 1916 disembarked Alexandria; June 1916 to Marseilles

Death

• Wounded 26 October 1917 shout wounds right thigh compound fracture; n°17 CCS
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on right thigh compound fracture at n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - C - 3A

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