Participant Info

Given Name

Hugh Vaughan

Family Name

Massie

Service Number

Lieutenant 1980

Place of Birth

Bairnsdale VIC

Occupation

Baker

Place of Enlistment

Melbourne VIC

Next of Kin

Address on Enlistment

142 High Street, Malvern, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

22nd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement

Age at Embarkation

22

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A68 Anchises, Melbourne VIC on 26 August 1915

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Lieutenant

Date of Return

Place of death or wounding

Bapaume, Somme Sector, France

Date of Death

8/03/1917

Fate

DOW

Place of burial/memorial

EDITING: ITEMS CHANGED/NOTES

birth registered at Sale, not Bairnsdale; parents appear to have moved from Bairnsdale by 1895; enlistment paper says born Bairnsdale You'd think he'd know where he was born?? In the book too!

Link to record

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