39th Battalion
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Alexander Norman Comrie (SN 420) born in Ballarat, was a 43 year old labourer when he enlisted in Melbourne on October 18th 1915. Assigned to the 39th Battalion he embarked aboard the Ascanius on May 27th 1916 reaching the France in late November. On January 7th 1917 he suffered a severe gunshot wound to the head which left him with a depressed fracture of his skull. He was evacuated to hospital in England gravely ill. He was not fit to return to active service and was returned home on the Euripides and discharged ‘medically unfit’ on October 20th 1917.
