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Cecil Evarard DUPPUY

Regimental number1636
Date of birth6 April 1883
Place of birthReading, England
SchoolEngland and New South Wales
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationFarmer
Address101 South Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation33
Next of kinWife, Mrs Sarah Forbes Duppuy, same address
Enlistment date7 April 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name43rd Battalion, 1st Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/60/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A19 Afric on 9 June 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll43rd Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularFather: the late Rev. C.R. DUPPUY, Jamberoo, New South Wales
FateReturned to Australia 22 September 1919
Discharge date3 January 1920
Family/military connectionsBrother: Chaplain Charles R. DUPPUY, 10th Bde, British Expeditionary Force (b. Newcastle, NSW, 21 September 1880; educ. NSW, St Edmund's School, Canterbury, England, and Keble College Oxford; home secretary, Church Missionary Society; enlisted 1 March 1918; embarked 18 March 1918; war service: France, Belgium); Sister: Nurse Marguerite DUPPUY (b. Jamberoo, NSW, 9 June 1891; educ. England; enlisted October 1914; war service: University College Hospital, London; contracted pneumonic influenza, 23 October 1919; died, 29 October 1919.)
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War service: Western Front

Contracted trench fever; invalided to Wimmereux and Colchester Hospitals, England; recovered and returned to duty. Arrived back in Australia, 11 November 1919.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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