OATES, Harold Hamilton Charlton
| Service Numbers: | 3254, NX66757 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 February 1917, Stated age 18 years, 5 months, actual age 16 years, 5 months! |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 22 September 1900 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Unknown |
| Occupation: | Fitter |
| Died: | Illness, Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 13 February 1966, aged 65 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW General 24. 58. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Wickham Honey Suckle Point (H.S.P.) Loco Railway Workshops Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Feb 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3254, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Stated age 18 years, 5 months, actual age 16 years, 5 months! | |
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| 10 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 3254, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Boorara embarkation_ship_number: A42 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 3254, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Boorara, Melbourne | |
| 27 Feb 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Signaller, 3254, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Qualified Signaller from 24th Signalling Course | |
| 26 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Signaller, 3254, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Sickness and found out for being under age. |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX66757, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) | |
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| 5 Apr 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX66757, General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
56 years ago today, on the 16th February 1966, Signaller Harold Hamilton Charlton Oates, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg No-3254), also known as Bluey, fitter (Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops), from Elcho Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 65 (not 64). GENERAL-24. 58.
Born at Hamilton, New South Wales on the 22nd September 1900 to George and Mary Ann Oates; husband of Alma M Oates nee Beresford (married 1925, Uralla, N.S.W., died?), Bluey enlisted February 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W. (stated age 18 years, 5 months, actual age 16 years, 5 months!)
Admitted to hospital 8.9.1917 (tonsilitis), 8.6.1918 (pleurisy), 19.8.1918 (pyrexia - the medical term for fever).
Bluey was invalided home April 1919, being discharged medically unfit (boils, malaria, underage) on the 26th May 1919.
Mr. Oates’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor, Hamilton St. Peter's Anglican Church Honor Roll (photo, unveiled on the 23rd December 1917, 125 names originally inscribed, 179 names now inscribed, 31 Fallen), Merewether Public School Roll of Honor, Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Bluey’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Also served WW2 (NX66757-Sergeant, Army Service Corps).
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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