Number Trooper 1430

Battalion 8th Light Horse

Place of Birth Bolinda Vale Lancefield Junction
Romsey Victoria

Next of Kin His father, Henry Munns of Mt Eccles

Date and place of enlistment Leongatha 19/7/1915

Physical details on enlistment Age 33 years 1 month,

5'3" 10 stone 7 pounds, blue eyes and dark brown hair

Religion Church of England

Occupation Farmer

Date and place of death

He died of bronchial pneumonia caused by influenza on 20/10/1918 in Cairo

Location of grave or memorial

He was buried in the Port Said Military Cemetery

Relationship to Woorayl Shire

He and his family lived in Mt Eccles

Military History

He attended Bolinda State School near Lancefield
19/7/15 He enlisted Leongatha
13/11/15 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Mccorquodale
26/12/15 He is taken on strength to the 8th Light Horse Regiment at Heliopolis
26/2/16 He marched out of Heliopolis to Serapeun
He is in the group photo of Leongatha boys taken in Egypt early 1916
He served in Egypt and Palestine
3/6/16 He was evacuated to hospital to the 53rd Welsh Casualty Clearing Station Ferry Post.
11/6/16 He rejoined the 8th Light Horse at Railhead
19/8/16 He was evacuated to hospital General Hospital Port Said with tonsillitis
21/9/16 He marched out to the 8th Light Horse
22/12/16 He is evacuated to hospital at Masaid then the Stationary Hospital at Kantara
24/12/16 He had appendicitis and was transferred to the Australian General Hospital and then to a convalescent hospital
12/2/17 Returned to the 3rd Light Horse training regiment at Moascar.
22/4/17 Rejoined 8th Light Horse
24/4/17 He is evacuated to hospital
5/7/17 He is in hospital with gastro enteritis and then he goes to convalescent home.
9/8/17 He returned to the 3rd Light Horse training regiment
21/8/17 He returned to the 8th Light Horse
In October he is wounded and then detached to the 3rd Light Horse Headquarters
29/10/17 He returned to his unit
17/11/17 He is evacuated to the Australian General Hospital Abbassia Cairo
22/11/17 he had malaria and was then transferred to the Desert Mounted Corps Rest Camp. Port Said
14/9/18 He contracted influenza and pneumonia and has chronic dyspepsia
He is considered so ill he is to be sent home
16/10/18 He is dangerously ill
20/10/18 He died of disease, bronchial pneumonia caused by influenza
He was buried by Stanley Swain in Port Said military cemetery
His cousin Allen H Young was killed in France 20/10/18