Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 25/10/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 02/11/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Melbourne, Victoria
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Address (at enlistment)
- C/- Lands & Survey, Department of Home Affairs, Melbourne, Victoria (previously Acton ACT)
- Occupation
- Draftsman
- Next of Kin
- Victor Lynch (father), North Sydney NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 18382
- Final Rank
- EDP Corporal
- Final Unit
- 9 Field Company Engineers AIF
Notes
Lynch was a member of Scrivener's survey team in 1913, a foundation member of the Canberra Rifle Club in 1914 and played cricket for Acton. He worked as a draftsman for the Department of Home Affairs, Canberra and lived at the Bachelor Quarters. He served with the 9th Field Company Engineers (part of the 3rd Division) in France from January 1918 until the end of the war.
Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 151 pounds, chest 34-38 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Catholic, birth mark on his left hip.
Sources
Builders of Canberra by Ann Gugler
Queanbeyan Age - 9 December 1913, 29 January 1915, 23 February 1915
National Archives (A207) G1915/33 Rates of pay - officers and employees of Lands and Survey Branch, Federal Territory
National Library of Australia : Canberra Rifle Club Minute Book 1914-1939 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 3996)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)