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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Ballarat
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence 706 Urquhart-street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of Minnie Ellis, of 706, Urquhart St., Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Profession Railway clerk

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 16 March 1915, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  
• Service number 3252
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals 1 January 1917 awarded Meritorious Service Medal.
  2 July 1917 awarded Military Medal
  1914-1915 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 6th Field Ambulance Australian Army Medical Corps
• Other data related to military career 26 March 1915 promoted Corporal; Embarked Melbourne 4 June 1915; 28 November 1915 promoted Sergeant; March 1916 to Marseilles;
  Meritorious Service Medal for gallantry and devotion to duty particularly during the action at Pozieres from 16 to 27 August 1916 when he supervised the transport of wounded by stretcher bearers from RAP's through the Pozieres Wood. He continued his work visiting the various posts under heavy shell fire showing great determination and devotion to duty combined with galantry.
  Military Medal for a splendid example of coolness and bravery to his men.

Death

• Wounded 27 September 1917 shot wound shoulder and hip in Passchendaele; N° 17 CCS
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - D - 2

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