Edward BICKFORD

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Service Number:	1519
Enlisted:	8 April 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ravenswood, Victoria, Australia, 1889
Home Town:	Ravenswood, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Ravenswood State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 26 August 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Kangaroo Flat Ravenswood State School Honour Roll

8 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1519, 21st Infantry Battalion
28 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1519, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT A35 Berrima
29 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1519, 21st Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli
26 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1519, 21st Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm, Killed by artillery/shrapnel

Son of Robert George and Hannah Jane Bickford, of Ravenswood, Victoria.

Brother of:

SN 1518 Cpl Robert John Bickford MM, 21st Btn (DOW 12 Jan 1917);

SN 815 William Bickford 14th Btn (KIA 11 Apr 1917) &

SN 716 Lce Cpl Nicholas Bickford 6th Btn (RTA 1919).

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