Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

English   J G    Sgt   51    John Graham     5 Inf Bn    31   Labourer   Single   Pres

Address: West Melbourne, Stanley St, 207

Next of Kin:  English, Mrs, mother, 207 Stanley St, West Melbourne

Enlisted:  17 Aug 1914

Embarked:  A3 Orvieto 21 Oct 1914

Prior Service:  12 years Highland Light Infantry, Scotland.

English J G   2nd Lt        John Graham              21 Inf Bn    32    Blacksmith    Single    Pres        

Address:    Ascot Vale, Ascot Vale Rd, 324    

Next of Kin:    O'Neill, Matilda, Mrs, mother, 324 Ascot Vale Rd, Ascot Vale    

Enlisted:    17 Aug 1917        

Embarked:     A11 Ascanius 11 May 1917    

Sergeant English received a gunshot wound to the foot between 25 and 30 April, and evacuated to hospital in Heliopolis.  In December of that year he was returned duty on 10 August 1915.   After a bout of typhoid later in the year he was returned to Australia for a change in December 1915.

On 16 MArch 1916 he returned to duty and applied for a Commission, and embarked for Europe on 11 May 1917.   He was wounded for a second time in May 1918.  

Lieutenant English took his discharge in England at the end of 1919.  There is an application at the NAA for an assisted passage for a wife and child to Australia in 1924.

English volunteered again for duty in WW2, and was appointed to be a Lieutenant in the Garrison Bn, being appointed to the Murchison group of Prisoner of War camps. He was appointed Captain before being discharged in 1942 for medical reasons.  He died  in the Repatriation Hospital in 1945.

War Service Commemorated