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Harold Austin Sherwin

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Given name
H A
Family name
Sherwin
Service number
3294
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Private
Unit at embarkation
55th Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Sinai Palestine Western Front
Veteran Notes/Bio

 

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as, "Harold A.KIA.POW Germany (B)". Note: the "KIA" note is incorrect.See item 5 below.

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 3294;POB: Nimmitabel,NSW;POE:Goulburn,NSW ;NOK: Father: C. Sherwin. Captains Flat via Bungendore.

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 17 Battalion,7th Reinforcement; Age: 21 ; Occupation:School Teacher;DOE: 7.8.1915 ; Embarked:20.12.1915.Sydney.HMAT Suevic.A29.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private ;Unit:55 Battalion ; DOE: 7.1.1915; RTA: 1.04.1919 .

5. NAA File:Iincorrectly recorded on Nominal Roll as Killed in Action, 20 July 1916.Taken on strength, 55th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 16 February 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.Reported killed in action, 20 July 1916; subsequently reported Prisoner of War, Germany.

Repatriated, December 1918; arrived England, 18 December 1918.

Admitted to King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London, 19 December 1918 (bronchitis); transferred to 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, 23 December 1918; discharged on furlough, 15 January 1919, to report to No 1 Command Depot, 29 January 1919.

Commenced return to Australia from Avonmouth on board HT 'Shropshire', 1 April 1919; disembarked Melbourne, 16 May 1919, for onward travel to Sydney. Discharged (medically unfit), Sydney, 10 July 1919.

6.Monaro Pioneers:Born 21 Jan 1894, Bobundarah, NSW; died 13 Mar 1951, Camden, NSW.

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