John William Baxter

Service number: 3025

Rank: Driver

Unit: 20th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement, and 56th Battalion

Service: Australian Army

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Source: National Archives Australia

John William Baxter enlisted on 8th August 1915 and was 21 years and 3 months. His mother Annie Bathgate lived at 17 Arthur Street, Manly. John was a carter by trade.

He was admitted to hospital with myalgia on 27th December 1916, then returned to Australia on the Suevic with chronic bronchitis on 25th April 1918. He was discharged on 13th July 1918. He lived at Manly, and died at Concord Hospital on 24 February 1968, aged 74.