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• Name BRIGHT
• Initials GL
• First name GEORGE LAURENCE
• Place of birth North Pine
• Country Queensland, Australia
• Last residence North Pine
• Family Son of Charles Duncan and Mary Elizabeth Esther Bright, of McMaster St., Nundah, Queensland
• Profession Watchmaker

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 12 June 1915, Queensland
• Service number 5338
• Rank Gunner
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal
• Regiment and unit 1st Brigade Australian Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked Melbourne 27 September 1915; to France March 1916

Death

• Wounded 26 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds scalp and leg, n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 27 October 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - F - 13

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