NORMAN+BYWATER+MIERS

Miers, Norman Bywater, Private, 6278, 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Lea, Derbyshire Enlisted Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Killed in action 20th September 1917 aged 42 Son of John Miers. Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Information from service records held at the National Archives of Australia Norman Miers enlisted on the 8th September, 1916, at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. He was employed as a lease holder, and had previously been apprenticed for five years to a mechanical engineer. He stated his next of kin as his friend, Mr. A. B. Robertson, of Edjundini, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Five feet eleven inches tall, he weighed 191 pounds, had a ruddy complexion, brown eyes and brown hair bald on top, and belonged to the Church of England. He had lost his ring finger on his left hand.


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