OLDFIELD L.

Given Names:  Laurence

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Unit:  6th Battalion, 8th reinforcements                                                                             

Rank:  Lieutenant                                                                                                            

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Age:  22 Yrs  11 Mths

Occupation:  School Master (Trinity Grammar)                                                                                           

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Church of England

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  5 In                     

Weight:  144 Lbs

Chest:  33-35 In

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ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  28/1/1915

Place:  Broadmeadows

Next of Kin:  GUARDIAN  Sister Esther Oldfield

c/- Church of England Mission, 261 Spring Street, Melbourne, Victoria                               

Embarkation Date:  26/8/1915

Port:  Melbourne                                       

Ship:  HMAT Anchises A68

END OF WAR 

Status:  Died of wounds

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Unit:  22nd Battalion                                                                                                                     

Rank:  2nd Lieutenant

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MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star: 

British War Medal: 

Victory Medal: 

Other:   

BIRTH

Date or Year:  29/2/1892

Place:  ,          

Father:   Not known                                 

Mother:   Not known

MARRIAGE

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DEATH

Date or Year: 26/6/1916                          

Place: 2nd Casualty Clearing Station, France                                                           

Burial:  Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

Wounded in action 10/10/1915

Typhoid/dysentry admitted to Heliopis Hospital 5/11/1915; embarked for Australia for change 4/12/1915 on HMAT Thermistocles, disembarking 29/12/1915. 

Returned 4/6/1916 on HMAT Euripides A14 with 22nd Battalion, 12th reinforcements (rank 2nd Lieutenant)

Wounded in action 25/6/1916; multiple shell wounds, head and back, gun shot wounds, back and thigh; and admitted to 6th Field Ambulance; transferred to 2nd Casualty Clearing Station on 26/6/1916 and died of wounds there, same day

MEMORIALS

Kew War Memorial

Trinity Grammar

University of Melbourne

Australian War Memorial

Memorial Plaque: 356328

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

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COMMENTS