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Allan Edmund Betts, tailor, of Latrobe, Tasmania. He enlisted in the 12th Battalion on 5 January 1915 and embarked from Fremantle on HMAT Argyllshire on 19 April 1915 for Gallipoli. Pte Betts was evacuated to Malta on 19 August 1915 suffering from a leg infection and dysentery and then to England for treatment and convalescence. He returned to Egypt just prior to the battalion relocating to France and the Western Front in April 1916. Pte Betts was killed in action near Vadencourt, north east of Amiens, France between 19-22 August 1916, aged 20 years. He has no known grave and his name is recorded on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

His Australian Army Papers can be seen here naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3078086

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Private Angus's army records are available from the National Archives of Australia: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.a... His CWGC entry: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1457514/ANGUS,%20GEOR... Born: Amherst, Victoria (near Talbot) Parents: Thomas and Jane Angus, of Majorca, Victoria Trade: Blacksmith Next of kin: Jane Angus (mother), Majorca, Victoria Religious denomination: Presbyterian Joined up: Majorca, Victoria, 17 July 1915, aged 21, Service No: 4127 Embarked: Melbourne, 29 December 1915, on HMAT A64 "Demosthenes" Regiment: 1st Australian Divisional Pioneer Battalion, AIF (late 13th Reinforcements, 6th Battalion, AIF) Died: 21 August 1916, France (killed in action), aged 22 Memorial: Name recorded on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France.