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Victor GREEN

Regimental number6498
Date of birth1896
Place of birthNorth Winton, Victoria
SchoolState School No. 1673, North Winton, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationSchool teacher
AddressState School, Benalla, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, Mr R H Green, Eden, McHenry Street, East St Kilda, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed in the Compulsory Military Training scheme.
Enlistment date18 July 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name5th Battalion, 21st Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/22/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 2 October 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll5th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 22 April 1917
Place of death or woundingLagnicourt, France
Age at death20.2
Age at death from cemetery records20
Place of burialGrevillers British Cemetery (Plot I, Row E, Grave No. 3), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
43
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Robert and Anna GREEN
Family/military connectionsRelated by marriage: 4494 Sergeant Harvey Lewis Sydney GAMBLE, 54th Bn, returned to Australia, 12 May 1918; 6055 Pte Robert James GAMBLE, 24th Bn, killed in action, 8 October 1917; 6500 Pte Clemence Henry GAMBLE, 5th Bn, killed in action, 4 October 1917; 3509 Pte Leslie James WAIN MM, 1st Bn, returned to Australia, 28 March 1919.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Enlisted with 6500 Clemence Gamble, who helped lift him on to the stretcher when he was wounded at Bullecourt, France.

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