ANDERSON, Harold Sven
| Service Number: | 3648 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron |
| Born: | Liverpool, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 28 August 1894 |
| Home Town: | Bexley, Rockdale, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hotel Waiter |
| Died: | 19 June 1938, aged 43 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cairns (General) Cemetery, Queensland MES Row: H |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Apr 1918: | Involvement Private, 3648, Camel Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Darwin embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 30 Apr 1918: | Embarked Private, 3648, Camel Corps, SS Port Darwin, Sydney | |
| 7 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 3648, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron, 2nd Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Zidane McNamara
Harold Anderson was assigned to the ‘Show Ground Camp’ in Sydney on 22nd November 1917, he was sent to Recruits Training Squadron at Menangle Park on the 26th, then onto Camel Corps Reinforcements on the 21st December. He embarked from Sydney on SS Port Darwin on 30th April, 1918 as Camel Corps reinforcements. He disembarked at Suez on the 7th June, 1918 and was transferred to the 4th Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron on the 17th August. He went to hospital on 28th September and embarked to the United Kingdom with a case of Diarrhoea on the 24th December, 1918. He arrived in England and was transferred to the 1st Australian General Hospital with Dysentry and transferred to Military Hospital in Sutton Veny on the 28th January, 1919. He embarked on the 6th September and returned to Australia on the 8th November, 1919 on the ‘Berrima’ and was discharged on the 7th January, 1920 at the 2nd Military District. He died on the 19th June, 1938 in Queensland.