Soldier profiles
Name : SAVAGE, PATRICK LESLIE
Service Number : VX23459 (5438)
Date of Birth : 07/07/1900
Place of Birth : CRANBOURNE, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : LABOURER
Date of Enlistment : 06/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : CRANBOURNE, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : SAVAGE, KATHLEEN
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
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Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 09/07/1940
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6227646 [DIGITISED], Barcode 8078384 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll
Background : Husband of Kathleen Hamilton Savage. Original service number 5438 World War 1 Private with 59th Battalion. 14/02/1916 Enlisted Melbourne. 03/07/1916 Embarked Australia. 02/09/1916 Disembarked Plymouth, England. 23/08/1918 Wounded in France (gunshot wound in back). 07/02/1919 Embarked England on H.T. Lancashire as wounded. 31/03/1919 Disembarked Australia. 08/05/1919 Discharged Melbourne, Victoria. British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1914-1915 Star. Later number VX23459. Also V146140. At discharge : height 5 feet 5 inches, brown eyes, fresh complexion, black hair. Marital status : married. Marks / scars : appendix scar. War badge 5453.
Service record
06/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
08/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
11/06/1940 Admitted Camp Hospital with gastric ulcer.
13/06/1940 Discharged to unit.
09/07/1940 Discharged being medically unfit for service not occasioned by his own default.
