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DADSWELL, Archibald Frederick

Service Number:	4101
Enlisted:	5 January 1916, Place of enlistment - Perth, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	28th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Aldershot, Hampshire England, 1898
Home Town:	East Fremantle, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Packer
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

5 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4101, 28th Infantry Battalion, Place of enlistment - Perth, Western Australia
1 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 4101, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Fremantle
29 May 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4101, 28th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on Tunisian from Alexandria, Egypt on 29th May 1916,disembarking Marseilles, France on 5th June 1916.
29 Jul 1916:	Imprisoned Initially reported as "Killed in Action" but was actually captured at Pozieres, France, on 29 July 1916. Interred at Gottingen (Hannover) and XI Army Corps Cassel until he was transferred to Switzerland on 13 December 1916 and then repatriated to England on 14 September 1917. Pte Dadswell arrived back in Australia on 4 March 1918
11 Jan 1918:	Embarked 4101, 28th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on SS Port of Darwin from England on 11th January 1918, disembarked Australia 4th March 1918.
21 Mar 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4101, 28th Infantry Battalion

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