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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Epping
• Land Essex, England
• Family Oldest Son of George Austin and Sarah Bettis, of Ivy Chimneys; his brother Lance Corporal Arthur Austin was also wounded in Ypres, 1915 (died in 1920); other brothers: Albert, James, John, William John, Harry Gilpin, Frederick Charles; sisters: Ellen Maria, Mellie and Edith Lillie.
• Profession joined the army in 1904

Military service

• Service number 7607
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 9th Bn. York and Lancaster Regiment
• Other data related to military career To France on 21 September 1914 with the 2nd Bn.; seriously wounded in the thigh, March 1915; transferred to the 9th Bn.

Death

• Died at the age of 30
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - C - 16A

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