The grave of 206 Warrant Officer (WO) Edwin Dinner, AIF Canteens, of Yea, Vic. A reporter prior ...

Accession Number B01398
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Campbell, James Pinkerton
Place made Egypt: Suez Canal, Kantara
Date made 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

The grave of 206 Warrant Officer (WO) Edwin Dinner, AIF Canteens, of Yea, Vic. A reporter prior to enlistment, WO Dinner embarked from Melbourne as a Private (Pte) with the 1st Australian Remount Unit on HMAT Orsova on 12th November 1915. After transferring to the AIF Canteens, Egypt, he was eventually promoted to Warrant Officer and died of pneumonia on 19th October 1918 and was buried in the Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel.