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Personal data

• Name LARKIN
• Initials AR
• First name ANDREW RICHARD
• Place of birth Casterton
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Numurkah, Victoria
• Family Son of Michael and Catherine Ann Larkin, of Tarwin Meadows, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia; three brothers also served and one of them, Michael Edward, was killed in action on 7 August 1915
• Profession Railway employee

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 30 November 1914, Liverpool, New South Wales
• Service number 3867
• 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 Sydney 19 February 1915; to France 25 February 1917

Death

• Wounded 2 November 1916, gunshot wound left thigh
  20 July 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds left thigh, n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 22 July 1917
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVI - C - 4

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