Returned ANZACs,
Territory ANZACs,
First World War, 1914-1918,
Place of birth
Dandenong (Vic.),
Place of enlistment
Chermside (Qld.),
Date of enlistment
1915-10-06,
Age
35,
Occupation
Farmer,
Service
Australian Imperial Force,
Unit
10th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Remount Unit 2, Squadron 7,
Rank
Corporal,
Service number
2489,
Next of kin
Jean Dunbar - Sister ; Penshurst, Vic.,
Date of death
1905-04-17,
Place of death
Carlton (Vic.),
Biographical notes
Arrived in Darwin 18 June 1914 on SS 'West Australia' from Fremantle.,
History
Fourth Contingent October 1915. Transferred from 7 training battalion C Company 11 November 1915. Transferred to 10 Light Horse 15 October 1916. Unit embarked from Sydney on board RMS 'Orontes' on 10 November 1915. Returned to Australia 10 July 1919 on the 'Oxfordshire'. "Dunbar was the first of our lot to sail for Egypt , and I may say I was next" Jas D.B. Dymock.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3525595,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067656%5CRCDIG1067656--230-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1557898/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/10/15/,
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/243112,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3279955,
http://hdl.handle.net/10070/243112 [Farewell Smoke Social Programme, Fourth Contingent, October 1915.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/10/15/ [Unit War Diary],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067656%5CRCDIG1067656--230-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - RMS 'Orontes'],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1557898/ [Nominal Roll],
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3525595 [Service Record],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3279955 ["Our Boys at the Front", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 15 June 1916: p.15.],