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...School and later obtained his junior certificate from Adelaide University in 1908, and soon after obtained employment as a clerk with the Fremantle office of the shipping company, McIlwraith McEacharn & Co.
George did not join up when war was declared as he was looking after his sick mother. He would have liked to have enlisted in 1914, particularly as his best mate from McIlwraith & McEacharn, Emie Moorhouse, had joined the 16th Battalion. Other friends from the office also joined up and one, Tom Elder, after service with the artillery, would write in 1919 that:
My greatest regret is the large number of mates who gave their lives. Seven of us young men volunteered from the Shipping Office where we worked--five of whom lost their lives, and only two of us survived. (2)
Though all that was still in the future. 1914 came to a close and George continued working at the shipping office racking up five years of employment: As the months of 1915 passed by, George heard with excitement the landing of the Australians on Gallipoli. Little did he know that by the time he heard of the landing, Ernie Moorhouse would already be dead, killed in the 16th Battalion's charge at the Bloody Angle on 2 May.
When word of Ernie's death did come, this only made George more determined to enlist, which he did in August 1915. Owing to a minor sight disability he was not accepted straight away but in September was accepted for inclusion in the Army Medical Corps, and on 11 October:
Left Fremantle by 8.20 am...
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