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Personal data

• Name RANKIN
• Initials WJ
• First name WILLIAM JAMES
• Place of birth Collingwood
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence 442, Wellington Street, Clifton Hill
• Family Mother, Ella Rankin, 144 Moore street, Fitzroy

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Seymour, Victoria on 31 July 1915
• Service number 328
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 29th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 5th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked at Melbourne on on 10 November 1915; to France on 23 June 1916

Death

• Wounded 22 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on right thigh, left arm, left foot, right knee at n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 23 October 1917
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - B - 13

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