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Saxon Parkes

Birth: 11 August 1896, Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Death: 23 May 1920, Wingham, New South Wales, Australia    Tree

Rank: Private, 19th Battalion, D Company, Australian Imperial Force

Service no. 1398

Enlistment Date: 3 May 1915

Enlistment Place: Liverpool, New South Wales

Date of Embarkation: 25 June 1915

Place of embarkation: Sydney, HMAT Ceramic A40

Gallipoli, transferred to Malta with Dysentery: 8 October 1915

Gassed in France: 30 April 1918

Gunshot wound to left leg: 3 October 1918

Returned to Australia: 18 January 1919

Discharge Date: 2 May 1919

Letter from Saxon's mother Ruth enquiring about her son when he was in Malta with dysentery:



Source: National Archives of Australia, The AIF Project                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

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