|
Unit |
8th
Battalion, 2nd Reinforcements |
Rank |
Private |
|
Date of Enlistment |
5 October
1914 |
Service no. |
1283 |
|
Date of Death |
25 April 1915 |
Place of Death |
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|
Age |
23 |
|
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|
Cemetery |
Shell Green |
Details |
Artillery
Road Plot. 3. |
|
Epitaph |
Trusting
in Jesus |
|
Next of Kin |
(Father)
POLKINGHORNE Samuel |
Address |
145
Scott's Pde, Ballarat East VIC |
|
Parents |
Samuel
and Eliza J Polkinghorne |
Address |
145
Scott's Pde, Ballarat East VIC | Later 133 Victoria St,
Ballarat East VIC |
|
Date of Birth |
1891 |
Place of birth |
VIC St
Arnaud |
|
General |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
 |
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Gallipoli
Heroes – a tribute to the men from Western Victoria who gave
their lives for their country. MASSEY, Graeme, page 92 (source 19) |
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Photo |
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The Argus
Newspaper, 4 June 1915, page 5 (source 42) |
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Photo |
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The Australasian
Newspaper, 12 August 1915, page iii (source 52) |
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Photo |
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Victoria. The Education Department's record of War service. 1914
- 1918, page 78 (source 91) |
 |
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Newspaper article |
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The Argus Newspaper,
1 June 1915, page 11 (source 42) |
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Family details |
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|
Spirits of
Gallipoli |
 |
|
Headstone |
|
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
|
|
Gallipoli
Heroes – a tribute to the men from Western Victoria who gave
their lives for their country. MASSEY, Graeme, page 92
(source 19) |
 |
|
Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 54 (source 14) |
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