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• Name GROVES
• Initials JE
• First name JOHN EDGAR
• Place of birth Newport
• Country Shropshire, England
• Family Son of Richard Beaman Groves and Elizabeth Groves, of Ellis St., Coorparoo, Queensland

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Rockhampton, Queensland on 26 September 1916
• Service number 2754A
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 47th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 12th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 4th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Brisbane on 27 October 1916; to France on 4 May 1917

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds penetrating abdomen, left kidney at n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 15 October 1917
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - H - 3A

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