Serial Number and Rank

6085, Private

Birth

19 June 1895 Aboriginal Camp Ulladulla

Bap

1 September 1895 St Peters & St Paul Milton

Parents

Louis/Lewis Licey/Lacey & Emily Johnson. Both parents Aboriginal

Enlisted - Service

1. 11 March 1916 served with the 56th Battalion at Goulburn, medical discharged
2. 14 August 1916, served with 17th Battalion

Next of Kin

1916: Mo. Emily Lacey Surry Hills
1918: Fa. Surry Hills

Death

1 September 1957 Nowra

War Record

RTA 4 June 1917 HMAS Runic (invaliding in Australia for Home Service) and was medically discharged on 12 August 1917 and re-enlisted in September 1918 Liverpool.

Honour Rolls

None

Notes

1918 Living at Corrimal Wollongong
1930 Living at Nowra
1951 E J Lacy (sic) Wreck Bay NSW

Sources

War service record held in personal archives. Digital copy held by the Australian National Archives