Cyril Wren Whitehead

Service number: 4483

Rank: Private

Unit: 1st Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Cyril Whitehead was born at Muswellbrook and was an ironmonger. He was a well-known member of North Steyne SLSC. He enlisted on 8 September 1915, aged 23, giving as next of kin his mother, living at Alexander Street, Manly.

He embarked on the Osterley on 15 January 1916 and served with the 1st Battalion in France from March 1916. He was wounded in the arm on 31 October 1916. Following hospital treatment in England, he was returned to Australia on the Nestor on 12 July 1917 and discharged from service.

He died in 1959, aged 67 [1].

[1] See Manly Daily 30 November 1959 for death notice, husband of Dorothy, cremated Northern Suburbs Crematorium.