Balcombe QUICK MID, DSO

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Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	20 August 1914, Enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit:	Australian Army Medical Corps WW1
Born:	Dunedin, New Zealand, 12 May 1883
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Surgeon
Died:	Toorak, Victoria, Australia, 9 September 1969, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremated and remains were scattered
Memorials:

20 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, Enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria
19 Oct 1914:	Embarked Captain, 2nd Field Ambulance, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
19 Oct 1914:	Involvement Captain, 2nd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
1 Jan 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Major, 1st Australian General Hospital
1 Jan 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Major, 1st Australian General Hospital, At Tel-el-Kebir
25 Feb 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, At Rouens
25 Aug 1918:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette on 28 May 1918, page 620, position 111. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 October 1918, page 2057, position 41
17 Jan 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, Discharged at the 3rd Military District
3 Jun 1919:	Honoured Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, London Gazette on 3 June 1919, page 6461, position 40. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 November 1918,page 2110, position 58

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Address at the time of enlistment was Melbourne Mansions, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria.

Son of William Hichens Quick and Lucia Emily Quick nee Balcombe of Melbourne Mansions, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria formerly of NZ.

Commenced return to Australia on 15 September 1918 aboard HT Arawa disembarking on 17 November 1918

Medals: Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in Despatches, 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1927c Balcombe married Hilary Stephens in Victoria