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• Name PETTITT
• Initials HW
• First name HUGH WILLIAM
• Place of birth Chiltern
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Melbourne
• Family Son of William and Catherine Pettitt, Black Dog Creek
• Extra info Husband of Ethel S. Bird (formerly Pettitt), of Commercial Rd., Yarram Yarram, Victoria, Australia; three children

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment April 1916, Melbourne
• Service number 2155
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 24th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 6th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked at Melbourne on 6 June 1916; to France on 3 November 1916

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds on buttock and right leg at n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 6 October 1917
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - G - 6

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