Harold NELSON

NELSON, Harold

    Service Number: 6181
    Enlisted: 23 May 1916, Sydney, NSW
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 23rd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Darlington, NSW, 25 March 1896
    Home Town: Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales
    Schooling: Stanmore Public School and Windsor Grammar School
    Occupation: Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
    Died: Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW, 15 September 1948, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Blackheath Cemetery, New South Wales
    Presbyterian, Row 3, Plot 7
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    World War 1 Service

    23 May 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6181, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW
    31 Oct 1916: Involvement Private, 6181, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
    31 Oct 1916: Embarked Private, 6181, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney

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    Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

    Son of Phoebe and the late Arthur David NELSON, 271 Stanmore Road, Stanmore, NSW

    Harold served in France and was wounded at Ypres in September 1917 and invalided to hospital in England and discharged as medically unfit.  He then worked in a munitions factory in England.

    There is some discrepency with his birthdate as his age at death on his CWGC headstone has aged 73 in 1948 - making his birthdate c1875

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