VALENTINE, Cyril Hugh


Service Number: 3160
Rank: Corporal
Enlistment Unit: 40th Battalion
Transferred Unit: Not known or not applicable
Date of Enlistment: 1 November 1916
Enlistment Age: 33 years 7 months
Fate of person: Returned to Australia

Biographical Details

Cyril enlisted at Claremont in November 1916. He had previously been rejected as being unfit (probably on account of his height – 5ft 3 inches). He embarked on the Seeang Bee in February 1917 arriving at the Front in November. Cyril was promoted in the field to acting positions during 1917/1918. He returned to Australia in June 1919 and joined the Union Bank in Victoria retiring as Manager in Burnie where he died in 1958.

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