24th Infantry Battalion
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Augustine Dakin (SN 2023) born in Ballarat, was a 28 year old labourer when he enlisted at Ballarat on July 19th 1915. He embarked aboard the Anchises on August 26th, first to Egypt and then to France to serve with the 24th Infantry Battalion. During his service he was wounded on four separate occasions but he survived the war and returned to Australia aboard the Trasos Montes, disembarked at Melbourne on May 22nd 1919 and was discharged on July 15th.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Augustin Dakin.
