Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 28/04/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 20/02/1920
- Place of Enlistment
- Mitcham, South Australia
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 06/02/1892
- Place of Birth
- Dubbo NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Mechanical draftsman
- Next of Kin
- Harry and Kathleen Serisier (parents), Toolburra, Queensland
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 9707
- Final Rank
- Sapper
- Final Unit
- 1 Australian Troop Company Engineers IAF
Notes
Serisier was based at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from 1913 before he enlisted in 1916. He served with the engineers in Belgium and France from the end of November 1917 until the end of the war. He married Winifred Maling at Clacton-on-sea, England on 22 August 1919 and brought his bride back to Australia to live a couple of months later.
Description - height 5 feet 7 inches, weight 144 pounds, chest 36-38 inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Catholic.
Sources
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
Royal Military College Annual Report 1912-1913
Journal of the Royal Military College of Australia (June 1916)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)