George Raymond Ferris

Service number: 5813

Rank: Private

Unit: 17th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

George Ferris was born at Manly in 1895, son of Charles Ferris of Hazeldeane, Hilltop Crescent, Manly. He was a bank clerk prior to enlistment.

He enlisted on 6 June 1916 and embarked on the Ceramic on 7 October 1916. He served in the 17th Battalion in France. He contracted VD in July 1917. He was wounded in the foot on 20 September 1917.

While recuperating in England, he fell from a moving tram, injuring his knee. He was invalided home on the Somerset in January 1919 and discharged on 17 February 1919.