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a. Note:   Killed in action. !Details from THE WHITTAKER SAGA,MARY BEARD BOX 36 LOCK S.A.5633
 Enlisted in March 1916 at Kadina and was attached to the 5th division of the AIF. Trained in Melbouren He embarked for overseas on the SS Franconia to Alexandria in Egypt. He then travelled to England and was attached to the 8th machine gun company and trained at Grantham in Lincolnshire. On Christmas Eve 1916 he boarded the Princess Clementine for France. He stood to stretch in the trench near Ypres, Belgium and was shot. He died later from the effects of his wounds.


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