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War service: Western Front

Embarked Melbourne, 1 August 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 25 September 1916; marched in to 6th Training Bn, Rollestone, 26 September 1916.

Proceeded overseas to France, 19 November 1916; taken on strength, 23rd Bn, in the field, 2 December 1916.

Wounded in action, 3 May 1917.

CO, 23rd Bn, reported soldier as Missing to Court of Enquiry, 9 June 1917; now, 17 December 1917, declared 'Killed in Action, 3 May 1917'.

Statement, Red Cross File No 2080506, 5338 Pte J.B. DORAN, 23rd Bn, 9 January 1918: 'On May 3rd about Lagnicourt, the other side of Bapaume, in the morning we were lying out following up the Germans as they retired. He was in a captured German Strong (sic) post and was sniping. He was either sniped or hit by a piece of shrapnel. I saw him carried back past where we were lying and put down by the side of a shell-hole. This is the last I saw of him and he was almost certainly killed by the German barrage. He was an Englishman and joined us from Victoria. He had been in the Peninsular (sic), was discharged and rejoined. Joe Pallant we called him. He was well-liked in the Batt.'