Rank:
Private
Service number:
2428
Unit:
10th Infantry Battalion
Location:
13 General Hospital, Boulogne, France
Military Cemetery, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Date of Death:
17 March 1917
Enquirer:
Packet number:
2295
Date range:
1917
SLSA record number:
SRG 76/1/2295
No. 2428 Private Octavius John Pyne | Source: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+74978
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No. 2428 Private Octavius John Pyne
Submitted by Greg Watkins (not verified) on Fri, 09/18/2020 - 11:38
No. 2428 Private Octavius John Pyne, son of John Aloysius and wife Jane Elizabeth (nee Skipper), worked as a telegraph linesman in Strathalbyn, South Australia before he enlisted with the AIF on 25 March 1915 aged 24. He served with the 10th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement, and embarked from Adelaide on board the HMAT A61 'Kanowna' on 23 June 1915. He died of wounds on 17 March 1917, aged 26, and was buried in the Bologne Eastern Cemetery in France.
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