John Patrick Dale

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First Name:

John

Middle Name:

Patrick

Last Name:

Dale

Date Enlisted:

Thursday, September 16, 1915

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

31st Battalon

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Details:

John Dale (Service No 2129) was born in Wollongong around 1896.

At enlistment John was 19 years of age, and worked as a farm labourer in Wollongong. John's parents were deceased and he nominated his sister Elizabeth Rowlinson of Manilla, N.S.W. as his next of kin.

He embarked from Melbourne on HMAT A70 Ballarat with 3rd Reinforcements, 31st Battalion, on 18th February 1916. The troops arrived in France on 25th June 1916.

John served on the Western Front and took part in the battle for Fromelle. He was wounded in action on 21st July 1916 and evacuated to hospital in England for treatment of gun shot wounds to his arm and leg. He returned to his unit in France on 17th May 1917.

John was wounded in action a second time, on 9th August 1918 and was evacuated to hospital in England for treatment of a shrapnel wound to his leg.

He was invalided back to Australia in April 1919 and discharged medically unfit on 15th December 1919.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, DALE J P