Valentine, Job
SURNAME
Valentine
NAME
Job
PLACE OF BIRTH
Barcoo River, Tanbo, Qld
OCCUPATION
Saddler
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Cairns, Qld
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
20-02-15
NEXT OF KIN
Sister, Mrs E A (or Anne E) Norman, Rockhampton, Qld.
REGIMENT 1
25th Battalion AIF
REGIMENT 2
9th Battalion AIF
RANK
Private
CAMPAIGN 1
Middle East
DATE DISCHARGED
11-07-16
OTHER INFORMATION
1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
STORY OUTLINE
Scar six inches long on right side of chest and shot below left collar bone.
Previously A Garrison Naval Art Val. six years.
Seems he only spent one month with his Battalion before being sent home with chronic rheumatism and cardiac insufficiency and very short of breath.
He had also had mumps and although his age on enlistment was 39, in hospital records it says 49.
Permanently unfit.
SERVICE NO
2030
