Private George Terrick was a Taungurung man from the Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station near Healesville, Victoria. He enlisted in the 14th Australian Infantry Battalion in January 1916 and attended signal school at Broadmeadows before joining his battalion in France.
Terrick was gassed twice and sustained a gunshot wound to his shoulder in early 1918, which resulted in his discharge from service as ‘medically unfit’. The bullet remained embedded in his shoulder.
Terrick’s wounds troubled him for the rest of his life. He received a part pension, but when he died in 1956 his widow, Florence, was denied a war widow’s pension.
Private George Terrick 1916
Melbourne
photographer, Darge Photographic Company
REPRODUCED COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
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