George Henry LAWRENCE

Service Number:	30933
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	Medium Trench Mortar Batteries
Born:	Plymouth, Devon, England, 14 March 1879
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shire Labourer
Died:	27 August 1938, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

11 Nov 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 30933, Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 30933, Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, HMAT Suevic, Sydney

Outline of Service

George Henry Lawrence

14/3/1879 – 27/8/1938

N38798 changed to 30933 Gunner George Henry Lawrence Enlisted Show Ground Camp Sydney 4/09/1916.
Embarked Sydney 11/11/1916 from Unit 4th Divisional Headquarters with Medium Trench Mortar Battery Reinforcement 4 aboard HMAT A29 Suevic.

Disembarked at Cape Town and hospitalized with Measles 14/12/1916. Re-embarked 12/01/1917 for Plymouth aboard HMAT A67 Orsova, arriving England 17/02/1917.

Embarked Folkestone (South England) 15/3/1917.

Arrived Etaples (North France) 16/03/1917.

George served with 4th Divisional Artillery Column, the 11th Field Artillery Brigade and the 4th Artillery Divisional Headquarters in England, France and Belgium who in this period fought in the following: Retreat to the Hindenburg Line, Bullecourt, Messines, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, Villers Bretonneux, Hamel, Amiens, Albert and the Hindenburg Line.

He was admitted to 39 General Hospital at Le Havre (North France) 18/04/1919 (N.Y.D - Not Yet Determined), returning to Australia aboard HMAT A28 Miltiades leaving Plymouth 19/06/1919, arriving Melbourne and discharged 08/08/1919.

George suffered “Shell Shock”.

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