Prew, Montgomery (3375)
Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC
Age: 21 years
Enlistment Details: Saturday, 17 July 1915 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: 3375 view online service record
Address:
23 Heath Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Next of Kin:
Mildred Prew (wife)
23 Heath Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Embarkation Details:
Date: Monday, 11 October 1915
Ship: HMAT Nestor A71
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 5th Infantry Battalion – 11th Reinforcements
Fate:
RTA: Thursday, 11 May 1916
Discharged: Thursday, 26 October 1916
Brothers: Cleveland Prew and Clarence Victor Prew.
Hernia, when arrived in Egypt, re-enlisted 1918.
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Brian Membrey
Montgomery, married with two daughters was invalided home and discharged as medically unfit with a hernia condition in October, 1916; they were awarded pensions which were cancelled when he managed to re-enlist 19 October, 1918 – he served 67 days in camp before discharged as part of the general release on 24 December following the demobilisation of the A.I.F.