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Murray: Imperial Draft Contingent.
B5204: labourer born 1878 in Pyrmont NSW, Queen's South Africa Medal (CC OFS Tvl SA01 & SA02).
Source:# 933 served with AMC for 12 years after Boer War, WW1 6 ANMEF (AMC) to New Guinea in 1914, mentioned in a Special Garrison Order re the capture of KGS Komet during the Rabual actions. After his six month enlistment expired he re-enlisted in the AMC receiving as 4381 and embarked for Abbassia, eventually joining the BEF in France and achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant, discharged from the AIF in Sydney on 8.2.1920. Working as a Hospital Attendant at Liverpool Hospital in 1930. Died in 1945 at GRAYTHWAITE Red Cross Home, North Sydney and buried at Northern Suburbs Cemetery (Roman Catholic).
URL1: WW1 ANMEF (Tropical Unit) AMC 6 Cpl., a male nurse from Lilyfield NSW.
URL2: WW1 AIF 4381 Staff Sergt. 3AGH, a male nurse from Annandale NSW returned to Aust. 21.3.1919.
URL3: WW1 ANMEF & AIF, a male nurse aged 36 in 1914 born in Pyrmont NSW next of kin mother in Lilyfield, 10 years AMC 20 months in South Africa, 3rd Fd. Ambulance, 1922 & 1937 correspondence with Repatriation Dept. Sydney.
URL4: returned from Africa per Aurania, destined for Sydney but put ashore at Albany WA for hospitalisation with enteric.
URL7: The nominal roll of the Army Medical Corps Draft is made up as follows - Lieutenant-Colonel R Vandeleur KELLY, Lieutenant HK BOAN, Lieutenant JK FREYER, Civil Surgeon TH BARKER, Civil Surgeon HCM DELOHERY, Corps QM Sergeant JH MILLS, Staff-Sergeant ET MARTIN, Sergeant FJ HAWKINS, Sergeant W POOLE, Sergeant G SCHOFIELD, Sergeant (Compounder) CR WARDEN, Sergeant (Compounder) RMF WRAY, Corporal J EADIE, Corporal J GREEN, Corporal HNR MEAD, Lance-Corporal JH EADY, Lance Corporal J LOUDEN, Privates RW ANDERSON, G AVERY, WH BERWICK, AJ COLLYER, AB COX, WH CRANNEY, NG DENOCKER, FE EAVES, JA ELLIS, PM GASTON, H GOLDING, T GRIFFIN, E HADDOW, A HARPER, W HONNES, DHF JONES, WJ JONES, HF KENNEDY, H LAWRENCE, W MCALLISTER, WB MCCOSKER, FE MCGOWAN, H MOORE, A MULLINS, RJ PERDRIAU, AJ POWELL, J SCOTT, A SHAPTER, W SMEED, A VAUGHAN, GT WILKINS, WF WOOTTON, & TP WORMLEATON.
URL8: The following men suffering from enteric fever [aboard 'Aurania'] 2nd Regiment NSWMR, 1O81 COOK. 3rd Regiment NSWMR, 537 STAPLETON, 1486 HORNBY, 3218 SMITH, 1634 KILPATRICK. AM Corps, 808 ELLIS. All are doing well, excepting 1486 HORNBY, who is ill, and may be left in the hospital at Albany.
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