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Norman Wilfrid ALLISON

Regimental number217
Place of birthBeaconsfield, Tasmania
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationState school teacher
AddressBeaconsfield, Tasmania
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinFather, Wilfrid Harold Allison, Beaconsfield, Tasmania
Enlistment date18 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name3rd Field Ambulance, C Squadron
AWM Embarkation Roll number26/46/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 2 November 1914
Regimental number from Nominal Roll502
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll12th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 3 February 1918
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialBrookwood Military Cemetery (Plot XI, Row C, Grave No. 1), Surrey, England
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
64
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated on Beaconsfield State School Roll of Honour ('Esse Quam Videri': To be Be rather than to Seem), Tasmania. Parents: Wilfrid and Mary ALLISON, Beauty Point, Tasmania
Family/military connectionsBrother: 101 2nd Corporal Vernon Harold ALLISON, 3rd Field Company Engineers, returned to Australia, 3 December 1918.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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