24th Infantry Battalion
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Michael Collins (SN 2359) born in Melbourne, was a 26 year old married farmer when he enlisted at Ballarat on July 23rd 1915. Assigned to the 24th Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Osterley on September 29th. During his service in France he was wounded in August 1916, a shrapnel wound to his hand, then again in May 1917 when he suffered wounds to his hand and thigh. The thigh wound was severe, and he was returned to Australia aboard the Anchises, disembarked at Melbourne on January 3rd 1918 and was discharged ‘medically unfit, thigh wound’ on March 14th.
