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BLINMAN, John Clarence
| Service Number: | 9412 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Unley, SA, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Henley Beach , City of Charles Sturt / Henley and Grange, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | 10 July 1965, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Derrick Gardens |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 9412, 3rd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 9412, 3rd Field Ambulance, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 9412 | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 9412, 14th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
General Birdwood presented his Military Medal to him on 6 March 1920, while he was visiting Adelaide.
Military Medal
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty near MORLANCOURT, South West of ALBERT on 29th July 1918, when stretcher bearing on the BRAY-CORBIE Road. He carried a stretcher for several hours without rest under heavy shell and machine gun fire along a track under enemy observation. Hearing that a man had been wounded near the support lines and was lying there unattended he conducted a search over a heavily shelled area and having located the wounded man he led out his squad and brought him in safely. he showed the greatest courage and initiative throughout and his example had an excellent effect on the bearers working on the BRAY-CORBIE Road, which was the most trying portion of the Divisional front.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 36
Date: 14 March 1919
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