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  • Bermagui
  • New South Wales, Australia
  • Eldest son of John and Evelyne Maud Moorhead, of Cooroy, Queensland;
  • Southport High School in 1909 and 1910;
  • Commemorated on the Cooroy War Memorial

Military service

  • Enlisted in Brisbane, Queensland on 31 March 1915
  • 374
  • Private
  • 11th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
  • He served a year in the senior cadets, as well as a year in the citizens’ forces in Rockhampton; embarkation in Melbourne on 20 October 1916; to France on 25 April 1917

Death

  • Camp south of Poperinge, enemy aeroplane dropped two bombs at 8 pm; eleven men were killed;
  • Died of wounds at n°2 Canadian CCS
  • 24
  • XXV - B - 18

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