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Joseph Lachlan Hood

Name on Board JL Hood
Name on Service
Records
Joseph Lachlan  Hood
Enlistment Age 19
Occupation Labourer
Place of Birth Warracknabeal, Vic
Next of Kin James and Margaret Hood
Address 9 Princes St, North Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 4/08/1915
Service No. 3355
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 26/11/1915
Embarkation Ship HMAT Commonwealth A73
Unit on Embarkation 24th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 18/08/1916
Unit on Death 8th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
France (No known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
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