CURTIS  W.

Given Names:  Wallace Edwin

               

Service Number:  21041

Unit:  1-5th Division Signal Company, Nov 1917 reinforcements                                         

Rank:  Sapper 

Paybook Number:  608067

 

Age:  20 Yrs  4 Mths

Occupation:  Warehouseman                                                                                          

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Methodist

 

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  3¾ In                  

Weight:  112 Lbs

Chest:  30-33 In

Hair:  Brown

Eyes:  Blue

Complexion:  Sallow

 

ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  30/8/1917

Place:  Melbourne

Next of Kin:  FATHER  Ernest George Curtis

85 Barkers Road, Kew, Victoria                                                                                        

Embarkation Date:  26/11/1917

Port:  Melbourne                                       

Ship:  SS Indarra

 

END OF WAR 

Status:  Returned to Australia

Ship:  Boorara 

Embarked:  6/7/1919                                 

Disembarked:  26/8/1919

Unit:  1st Divisional Signal Company                                                                                              

Rank:  Sapper

Discharge Date:  18/9/1919                       

Place:  3MD

 

MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star:  Not earned

British War Medal:  71887

Victory Medal:  68526

Other:   

 

BIRTH

Date or Year:  2/4/1897

Place:  Ballarat, Victoria                           

Father:  Ernest George CURTIS               

Mother:  Jane BILNEY

 

MARRIAGE

Year:  1925     

Place:             

Spouse: Vera Bessie PILVEN

 

DEATH

Date or Year: 26/8/1982                          

Place: Malvern, Victoria                           

Burial:  Springvale, Victoria

 

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

 

MEMORIALS

Auburn State School

Kew War Memorial

Hawthorn Presbyterian Church

 

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

Service Number:   V366701                                                 

Date Enlisted:  23/5/1942                                                      

Date Discharged:  9/10/1945

 

COMMENTS

FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Kew Rotary