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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Cabbage Tree, Creswick
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Melbourne-Road, Creswick, Victoria
• Family Son of Peter and Eliza Mary Caddy; Six brothers William Thomas, Peter, William, Thomas, Alfred Edward, Henry; Three sisters Amelia, Rosina, Eliza May
• Profession Labourer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 19 August 1914, Ballarat
• Service number 6726
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Other data related to military career Also service n°335; embarkation 19 October 1914, Melbourne; 5 April 1915 embarked Alexandria; 13 March 1917 proceeded France.

Death

• Wounded 27 April 1915 fractured collarbone (buried by a shell in trench).
  1 Mai 1915 wounded collarbone – fractured clavicle.
  9 February 1916 re fractured clavicle.
  20 September 1917 shot wounds thigh and right arm.
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds left thigh, in n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIII - D - 18

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