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Eric David Wooster

Birth: 27 May 1888, Paramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Death: 10 June 1952, Chatswood (Sydney), New South Wales, Australia           Tree

 

Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. c 1915-07. NCOs at the 1st Field Ambulance dressing station look on as stretcher bearers (one only in view) carry a wounded Turkish soldier. From left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) Munns, Sgt Hoskins, Denton, Sgt Wooster (probably 17 Sgt Eric David Wooster). (Donor W. Poate)

Rank: Sergeant, Australian Army Medical Corps, 1st Field Ambulance, 1st Australian Imperial Force

Service no.: 17

Enlisted: 24 August 1914, Sydney

Occupation: Clerk

Embarkation: 20 October 1914, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

Served in France

Mention in despatches: 07 March 1917, 01 June 1917, 20 September 1917, 28 December 1917

Awarded Croix de Guere (Belgian Decoration), 12 July 1918

Sources: Australian War Memorial, Virtual War Memorial Australia

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  14 January 2022