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Donald Alex Gordon CHISHOLM

Regimental number312
Place of birthLearmonth, Victoria
SchoolLearmonth State School
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationFarm labourer
AddressLearmouth via Ballarat, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinFather, Donald Chisholm, Learmonth via Ballarat, Victoria
Previous military serviceSenior Cadets
Enlistment date5 February 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll17 February 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name23rd Battalion, B Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/40/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 10 May 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll23rd Battalion
FateKilled in Action 2 September 1915
Place of death or woundingTorpedoed 'Southland'
Age at death19.1
Age at death from cemetery records19
Place of burialEast Mudros Military Cemetery (Plot II, Row M, Grave No. 222), Lemnos, Greece
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
98
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Donald and Mary CHISHOLM
Family/military connectionsBrother: 3788 A/Lance Corporal Edgar George CHISHOLM, 22nd Bn, returned to Australia, 9 December 1918.
Other details

War service: Western FrontG

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

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