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Joseph Henry PACKER

Regimental number4837
Place of birthHayward Park, England
SchoolPossibly Pickering State School, South Australia
Other trainingNil.
ReligionMethodist
OccupationLabourer
AddressPickering, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinFather, Joseph Edwin Packer, Pickering, Yorke's Peninsula, South Australia
Previous military serviceNil.
Enlistment date28 October 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name32nd Battalion, 13th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/49/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A30 Borda on 23 June 1917
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll48th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 3 May 1918
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death24
Age at death from cemetery records24
Place of burialAdelaide Cemetery (Plot III, Row Q, Grave No. 5), Villers-Bretonneux, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
146
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Joseph and Lydia PACKER, Pickering, South Australia
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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