Participant Info

Given Name

Vernon Thomas

Family Name

Brookes

Service Number

389

Place of Birth

Ballarat VIC

Occupation

Teacher

Place of Enlistment

Orbost VIC

Next of Kin

Mother, Mrs R Oakes, Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale, Victoria

Address on Enlistment

Duliston, Gippsland, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

7th Battalion, C Company

Age at Embarkation

22

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A20 Hororata, Melbourne VIC on 19 October 1914

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Private

Date of Return

Place of death or wounding

Gallipoli, Turkey

Date of Death

25/04/1915

Fate

KIA

Place of burial/memorial

EDITING: ITEMS CHANGED/NOTES

Query: Resided at 'Duliston'? Where's that? Taught at Wangrabelle near Ballarat?

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