Lyall Pidcock

Service number: 2879

Rank: Sapper

Unit: 9th Field Co Engineers

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Lyall Pidcock was born at Ingleburn in 1895 and was a grocer. He enlisted on 7 August 1916, giving his mother, at Crown Road, Queenscliff as next of kin.

He embarked on the Benalla on 9 November 1916 and served as a Sapper with the 9th Field Co Engineers.

He was hospitalised in September 191. He returned to Australia on the Anchises on 22 August 1919, having spent some time in Birmingham learning the manufacturing of sheep-shearing equipment. After the war he lived at Harbord. His brother Harold also served.