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Cecil Alfred HEMSLEY

Regimental number2176
Date of birth20 October 1894
Place of birthProspect, South Australia
SchoolPrince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationClerk
AddressProspect, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinMother, Mrs Caroline Meta Hemsley, Milner Street, Prospect, South Australia
Enlistment date13 May 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name48th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/65/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on 12 August 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll48th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 21 July 1917
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialHamburg Cemetery (Plot III, Row G, Grave No. 14), Ohlsdorf, Germany
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
146
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Alfred and Caroline HEMSLEY, 6 Milner Street, Prospect, South Australia
Other detailsWar service: France. Taken prisoner, 11 April 1917; died of wounds, in Germany, 21 July 1917.

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