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Eric Kingsley Abraham
Eric Kingsley Abraham had been working as a postal assistant before enrolling in the war, and when he finished training in the Gallipoli campaign he was sent to The Western Front. He served in the Somme, Passchendaele, Villers, Polygon Wood, Bretonneux and Peronne
When he had been hospitalized in England in 1917 due to bronchitis and pleurisy, after recovering he departed from England on the 23rd of June 1919; and arrived in Sydney on the 9th of August 1919.
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Kingsley was awarded with the 1914/15 star, the British war Medal, the Victory Medal, and The Legion of Honour of France. Eric had served and survived as one of the last surviving Dungaree Diggers, and he was one of the last Queenslanders of the generation who served during World War I
