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Sydney Couch

Name on Board SH Couch
Name on Service
Records
Sydney  Couch
Enlistment Age 22
Occupation Labourer
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Nellie Couch
Address 19 College St, North Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status M
Enlistment Date 27/06/1916
Service No. 2631
Enlistment Place Brunswick, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 2/10/1916
Embarkation Ship HMAT Nestor A71
Unit on Embarkation 57th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 25/09/1917
Unit on Death 15th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
Ypres, Belguim (no known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium
Additional Information Sons: Sydney J D and Ernest Frederick;   Daughter: Margaret EM; Parents: Morris and Margaret Couch
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