Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 56th Infantry Battalion
Home Town: Tumbarumba, Tumbarumba, New South Wales
Died: Died Of Wound, Killed In Action, France, 15 May 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Grevillers British Cemetery
Grevillers British Cemetery, Grevillers, Picardie, France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Tumbarumba District Roll of Honour WW1, Tumbarumba Union Jack School Memorial
His Service Number Private/2184. He served in the 56th Battalion, Australian Inf, AIF. He was born at Tumbarumba in New South Wales and enlisted at Cootamundra in New South Wales. He embarked from Sydney for Plymouth per the H.M.A.T. "PT Sydney," on the 4th of September 1916. He proceeded to Etaples in France per the "Princess Henrietta," on the 14th of December 1916. He received shrapnel wounds to the left thigh, fractured leg and hand and a comp fracture to the right thigh in battle on the 15th May 1917 and he died of his wounds the same day aged 28 years. George Christmas is the son of George Thomas and Mary Ann Heinecke; husband of Alice May Heinecke, of Tumbarumba, New South Wales. (Bio by kc.byrne)
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 56th Infantry Battalion
Home Town: Tumbarumba, Tumbarumba, New South Wales
Died: Died Of Wound, Killed In Action, France, 15 May 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Grevillers British Cemetery
Grevillers British Cemetery, Grevillers, Picardie, France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Tumbarumba District Roll of Honour WW1, Tumbarumba Union Jack School Memorial
His Service Number Private/2184. He served in the 56th Battalion, Australian Inf, AIF. He was born at Tumbarumba in New South Wales and enlisted at Cootamundra in New South Wales. He embarked from Sydney for Plymouth per the H.M.A.T. "PT Sydney," on the 4th of September 1916. He proceeded to Etaples in France per the "Princess Henrietta," on the 14th of December 1916. He received shrapnel wounds to the left thigh, fractured leg and hand and a comp fracture to the right thigh in battle on the 15th May 1917 and he died of his wounds the same day aged 28 years. George Christmas is the son of George Thomas and Mary Ann Heinecke; husband of Alice May Heinecke, of Tumbarumba, New South Wales. (Bio by kc.byrne)
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