Addresses - Essendon Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Daily L Pte 988 Louis No 1 Mining Corps 37 Boilermaker Single R C
Address: Laverton, WA
Next of Kin: Daily, Owen, father, Essendon, Pascoe Vale Rd, 250, "Erindale"
Enlisted: 16 Nov 1915
Embarked: A38 Ulysses 20 Feb 1916
Relatives on Active Service
Daily-V-J-Pte-2932 brother
RTA Sapper, 3rd Tunnel Co, 1 Feb 1918, discharged in Perth,
Our Soldiers
Mr. Owen Daily, of "Erindale," Pascoe
Vale road, Essendon, has received word
that his son, Spr. Louis Daily, is return
ing wounded. He served on the West front.
Another son, Pte. Vincent Daily, is also
serving in France.
OUR SOLDIERS (1918, March 7). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and
Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 2 (Morning).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74605313
Sapper Louis Daily, son of ex-Sergt.
Daily, of West Footscray, erstwhile
footballer and goal-kicker, after useful
service at the front is returning home
with the scars of battle. Another son,
Pte. Vincent Daily, is also in France.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL (1918, March 16). Independent
(Footscray, Vic. : 1883 - 1922), p. 2.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74257896
Louis Daily returned to Victoria after his discharge where he married in 1919. By 1921 the couple was living at 154 Primrose St, not far from his parents, with his brother Vincent, miner, boarding with them. Louis was employed as a chauffer.
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