NAME Andrew Duncan MONK
BORN c.1888
DIED 1959
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 154
UNIT 3rd Battalion
ENLISTED Sydney 17 August 1914
DISCHARGED Sydney 8 December 1918 – Medically unfit

Andrew Duncan Monk applied for his advance [£625] on 15 November 1919.[1] His soldier settlement block was in the Land District of Dunedoo, Parish of Goodiman, County of Bligh and consisted of five portions totalling 636 acres. It was a part of Russell’s Settlement Purchase Area SP 1919.5.[2] Within two years Andrew Monk had vacated the block.[3] The Settlement Purchase was forfeited in 1923.[4]

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/6900  No. 3029] Application for Loan 15 November 1919.

[2] NSW Government Gazette 22 June 1923, p.-.

[3] SRNSW: NRS 8058 [12/6900  No. 3029], Op.cit., Memorandum Auditor General 10 January 1928.

[4] NSW Government Gazette 22 June 1923, Op.cit.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/6900 No. 3029] Alfred Duncan Monk.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Andrew Duncan Monk) online at: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp