Sydney Dorset MacDiarmid

Service number: 2847

Rank: Private

Unit: 17th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Syd MacDiarmid was born at Glebe in 1883 and was a tinsmith, living at 36 Denison Street. He enlisted on 2 August 1915, giving his mother, living at Auburn, as his next of kin.

He embarked on the Euripides on 2 November 1915, but was returned to Australia on arrival in France, when it was noted that he was not strong enough to carry an infantryman’s pack.

Anemia and inadequate physical development led to his discharge from military service.