Victor Athelstan NORVILL

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NORVILL, Victor Athelstan

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	8 August 1916, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Australian Flying Corps (AFC)
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, 31 May 1895
Home Town:	Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mechanical engineer
Died:	Natural causes, Broken Hill, New South Wales, 1 August 1925, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	Broken Hill Cemetery, New South Wales Presbyterian section
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Broken Hill St. Andrews Church Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

8 Aug 1916:	Enlisted Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), Adelaide, South Australia
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Lieutenant, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Lieutenant, Officer, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
29 Jun 1917:	Wounded Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC), GSW (neck)
29 Jun 1917:	Imprisoned At Vitrey, France
11 Nov 1918:	Discharged Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corps (AFC)

Excerpt from Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918

Volume VIII – The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918 (11th edition, 1941) Australian Airmen in France

In July and August, 1917, several pilots of No. 2 Squadron were sent to France for a period of three or four weeks' battle-flying experience with British fighting-scout squadrons on service at Ypres. Among these were Lieutenants V, A. Norvill (attached to No. 29 Squadron), and Lieutenants G. C. Matthews, G. C. Wilson, S H. G. Forrest: and Captain R. C. Phillipps (attached to No. 32 Squadron). Four of the five returned from this service and shortly became flight-commanders in their own squadron Norvill flew several times with British fighting patrols during the reconnaissances preliminary to the Third Battle of Ypres. He was shot down, wounded, and taken prisoner on July 29th after a sharp fight over the lines between seven British machines and twenty-five German scouts.

Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...Lieutenant Victor Athelstan Norvill, No. 2 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC). A mechanical engineer from Broken Hill, NSW prior to enlistment, Lt Norvill embarked with C Flight from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 25 October 1916. Later transferring to 69th Squadron, he was shot down near Vitrey, France and badly wounded. He was subsequently captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Germany. Due to the extent of his wounds, he was repatriated to England in January 1918 and returned to Australia on 10 March 1918 and was medically discharged." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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