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Josephus Alexander Aitken

Name on Board JA Aitken
Name on Service
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Josephus Alexander  Aitken
Enlistment Age 19
Occupation Steel Moulder
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Thomas Washington and Catherine Aitken
Address 64 Cole St, Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 12/07/1915
Service No. 2862
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 15/09/1915
Embarkation Ship HMAT SS Makarini
Unit on Embarkation 8th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 15/07/1916
Unit on Death 58th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
Flanders, Belguim (no known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Additional Information Attended Williamstown State School. Prior to enlistment employed by Messrs Gray Bros.
Additional References Williamstown Chronicle, Saturday 2 September 1916, p2
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