Maurice William Dalby

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First Name:

Maurice

Middle Name:

William

Last Name:

Dalby

Mother's Name:

Josephine Dalby (nee Long)

Father's Name:

Charles Dalby

Date Enlisted:

Monday, July 19, 1915

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

46th Battalion

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Date of Death:

Sunday, March 31, 1918

Place of Death:

France

Cause of Death:

Died of wounds

Details:

Maurice Dalby (Service No 1824) was born in Richmond, Victoria, around 1889. After his mother died, Maurice's father moved to Bellambi, N.S.W. with his family, and remarried.

Maurice's father died at Bellambi and Maurice appears to have gone back to Victoria to live following his father's death.

When Maurice enlisted in Melbourne he was 26 years old, single, and employed as a railway employee. He embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT A14 Euripides with 2nd Reinforcements, 46th Battalion, on 4th April 1916.

The troops arrived in England on 16th June 1916 and after training Maurice joined 46th Battalion in France on 12th February 1917 and served on the Western Front.

On 11th April 1917 Maurice was wounded in action and evacuated to hospital in England for treatment to a gun shot wound to his left shoulder. He was returned to the front on 26th November 1917.

On 31st March 1918 Maurice was wounded a second time, and was taken to 13th Field Ambulance for treatment of shrapnel wounds to his head. His wounds were severe and he died the same day.

Maurice is buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France: Plot VIII, Row E, Grave 12.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, DALBY M W