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ARMITAGE, REGINALD MONTAGUE

Studio portrait of 219 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Reginald Montague Armitage, 47th Battalion, of Burnie, Tas. A clerk with four years pre-war service as a sergeant in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) before enlisting in August 1914, Armitage left Australia for Egypt in October 1914 as a Corporal (Cpl) with the 3rd Field Ambulance. Promoted to Sergeant (Sgt) in December 1914, Armitage served on Gallipoli for four months before being evacuated with dysentery. Later selected for officer training, he was commissioned a 2nd Lt in January 1917, and was transferred to the 47th Battalion in France the following month. 2Lt Armitage was leading 2 Platoon, A Company during the Australian attack on the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt on 11 April 1917 when he was mortally wounded in the head, aged 25. Killed in the German trenches, his body was not recovered when the Australian attack withdrew, and he subsequently has no known grave

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