DYER, John
Service Numbers: | 8434 , 8434 |
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Enlisted: | 23 June 1915 |
Last Rank: | Driver |
Last Unit: | 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
Born: | Hyde Park, January 1896 |
Home Town: | Hyde Park, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Carpenter, Driver |
Memorials: | Rosewater Womens Memorial Roll of Honour WW1, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
Biography contributed by Modbury High School
John Dyer had a fair complexion, blue eyes and blonde hair. At the age of 19 years and six months he decided to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force to join the war. He was from Hyde Park and born in January, 1896. When he enlisted, he made his next of kin his mother, Sarah Jane Dyer.
His trade was carpenter, but in the AIF he got the position of a driver. He was in the 6th Field Artillery Brigade and after enlistment he embarked on his journey to Melbourne on the 22nd of November, 1915. After four years of working hard in the AIF, he was discharged on the 29th of May, 1919. No details are known of his later life.