Participant Info

Given Name

John Ritchie

Family Name

Fanning

Service Number

1672

Place of Birth

Flinders Island TAS

Occupation

Seaman

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Next of Kin

Wife, Mrs Christina Sarah Stirling, 'Ivanhoe,' St. Georges avenue, Surrey Hills, Victoria

Address on Enlistment

c/- C C Green, Solicitor, Esker, Bairnsdale, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

13th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement

Age at Embarkation

22

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A49 Seang Choon, Sydney NSW on 11 February 1915

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Private

Date of Return

Place of death or wounding

Date of Death

30/04/1915

Fate

KIA

Place of burial/memorial

EDITING: ITEMS CHANGED/NOTES

Link to record

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3547746