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Bacchus Marsh
Avenue of Honour

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Private George Forsyth Bence

1884
Born at Bacchus Marsh, VIC
1915
Enlisted but rejected medically unfit
2/3/1916
Enlisted at Bendigo, VIC aged 21y 8m
20/6/1916
Embarked at Melbourne aboard the HMAT A54 Runic
10/8/1916
Disembarked Plymouth
22/11/1916
Embarked for France
27/2/1917
Wounded in action - Gun Shot Wound to the head - severe
31/3/1917
Admitted General Hospital Colchester - dangerously ill
April 1917
Reported out of danger
21/7/1917
Embarked for australia aboard A14 Euripides
18/9/1917
Returned to Australia
19/11/1917
Discharged medically unfit - disability due to war service
1920
Married Lydia Nancarrow
1975
Died at Kerang, VIC aged 80

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