Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Whitaker J        Pte    7332    Joseph     5 Inf Bn    43    Engineer    Married    C of E       

Address:    Ascot Vale, South St , 7  

                 Ascot Vale, South St, 65   (by 1924) 

Next of Kin:    Whitaker, C S, Mrs, wife, 5 Earl St, Edgeley, Stockport, England   

Enlisted:    30 Nov 1916       

Embarked:     A70 Ballarat 19 Feb 1917 torpedoed

  The transport HMAT Ballarat after being torpedoed by a German submarine off the

southern English coast on 25 Apr 1917. In the background a British destroyer is

standing by to take the troops.  http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/C01592 AWM Collection.

Whitaker married Charlotte Sophia Sutton in Battersea, Surrey, in 1907 an extract of the marriage being found in the B2455 file.

War Service Commemorated