Rank: 
Sergeant
Service number: 
1559
Unit: 
27th Infantry Battalion
Location: 
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey
Chailak Dere, Turkey
Chalk Hill, Turkey
Cheshire Ridge, Gallipoli, Turkey
Egypt
Hill 971, Gallipoli, Turkey
Suvla Bay, Turkey
Date of Death: 
19 September 1915
Enquirer: 
Alice Emily Poyntz
Eyewitness Reports: 
Victor William Henry Beck
William Ernest Raymond Leane
George Roy Bice
Frederick George Edwards
George William Nalty
John Hotson Mursell
George Sydney Ross
Joseph James Churchett
Frederick Clarence Sharrad
Walter Moyle
Charles Herbert Picard
Packet number: 
71
Date range: 
1916-1919
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/71
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