Brittain, John Edwin
PLACE OF BIRTH
Ingham, QLD
OCCUPATION
Butcher
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Port Douglas
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
13/01/1915
NEXT OF KIN
Caroline Ivy Brittain,"The Cedars" Mossman,QLD.
Then [Wife] Dorothy Mary Brittain, 25/11/18.
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Enlisted Port Douglas
REGIMENT 1
Other Light Horse
REGIMENT 2
Special units
RANK
Private
CAMPAIGN 1
Gallipoli
DATE DISCHARGED
2/07/1919
OTHER INFO
British War Medal, Victory Medal, Gallipoli Star, Marriage Certificate dated 25/11/1918.
STORY-OUTLINE
John Edwin Brittain's mother, his next of kin, appears to have worked at 'The Cedars' Mossman. He was a butcher before enlisting in January 1915. Private Brittain embarked from Australia 17/06/1915. In February 1916 he was hospitalised at the Australian.Gen.Hospital Ghezirch, Cairo, with illness and on the 27/09/17 he had a gunshot wound to his right thigh and spent time in the 8th Australian Hospital Dartford and Bethnal Green Military Hospital London. He married Dorothy Mary Brittain on the 25/11/1918. He embarked at Southampton on the 09/03/1919 per H.T."Kashmir" for return to Australia and disembarked 23/04/1919. He was discharged second July 1919.
SERVICE NO
2629
