Henry Homewood BRUCE

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Service Number:	865
Enlisted:	7 September 1914, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Yaysturk Victoria, 1881
Home Town:	Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	State School, Woodford, Victoria
Occupation:	Timber hewer
Died:	Died of wounds, Pozieres, Somme Sector, France, 26 July 1916
Cemetery:	Etaples Military Cemetery Plot 1X, Row A, Grave 14A, Etaples Military Cemetery, Etaples, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Nannup Town Hall, Nannup WW1, Nannup War Memorial, Woodford-Bushfield War Memorial

7 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
2 Nov 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 865, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
2 Nov 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, SN 865, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle
26 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, SN 865, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

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Rank -Sergeant

11 Battalion

Died in Canadian Stationary Hospital, Etaples, France from sharpnel wounds to the right shoulder

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Served in the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, South African War. Service number 1214

Son of Malcolm BRUCE & Janet nee DAVEY , 184 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria

Brother of 3602 Gunner Lindsay Charles Bruce, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, killed in action, 23 May 1918.