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Personal data

• Name CANNON
• Initials EJ
• First name EDWIN JOSEPH
• Place of birth Ballarat
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of Edwin Joseph and Florence Cecilia Cannon, of 610, Ascot St., Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
• Education Skipton Street Christian Brothers’ School ; Victorian Senior Scholarship at Ballarat Technical Art School
• Profession Student, Black-and-white artist

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 8 July 1915, Ballarat
• Service number 3701
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 6th Bn. Australian Infantry D Coy
• Division - Brigade 2nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked 23 November 1915, Melbourne; to France March 1916; appointed L/Cpl in the Field 6 September 1916

Death

• Wounded 13 September, craters, The Bluff
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the abdomen, in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 14 September 1916
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - B - 4A

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