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Personal data

• Name MOORHEAD
• Initials CE
• First name CYRIL ERIC
• Place of birth Bermagui
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Family Eldest son of John and Evelyne Maud Moorhead, of Cooroy, Queensland;
• Education Southport High School in 1909 and 1910;
• Extra info Commemorated on the Cooroy War Memorial

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Brisbane, Queensland on 31 March 1915
• Service number 374
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 11th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
• Other data related to military career 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

• Wounded Camp south of Poperinge, enemy aeroplane dropped two bombs at 8 pm; eleven men were killed;
• Type of wounds Died of wounds at n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 29 September 1917
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - B - 18

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