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Benjamin ASHTON

Regimental number485
Place of birthCoalville, Victoria
SchoolCoalville State School, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationBushman
AddressCoalvile, Gippsland, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation23
Next of kinMother, Mrs B Ashton, Coalvile, Gippsland, Victoria
Enlistment date27 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentLance Corporal
Unit name2nd Battalion, E Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/19/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A23 Suffolk on 18 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll2nd Battalion
FateDied of wounds 12 August 1915
Place of death or woundingGallipoli, Turkey
Date of death12 August 1915
Age at death22
Age at death from cemetery records24
Place of burialPortianos Military Cemetery (Plot I, Row A, Grave 5), Greece
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
31
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Benjamin and Phoebe ASHTON
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Miscellaneous detailsBURIED AT MUDROS, LEMNOS ISLAND

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