Henry Maxwell HOLDSWORTH

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HOLDSWORTH, Henry Maxwell

Service Numbers:	V170551, VX111684
Enlisted:	3 October 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Terang, Victoria, Australia, 6 August 1921
Home Town:	Hexham, Moyne, Victoria
Schooling:	Hexham State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 14 April 1976, aged 54 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Barrabool Hills Cemetery, Victoria
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World War 2 Service

3 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, V170551, Volunteer Defence Corps (VIC)
7 Oct 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Driver, V170551, Volunteer Defence Corps (VIC)
8 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX111684
6 Dec 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX111684, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Brisbane for Bougainville on board Seasnipe
12 Jan 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX111684, 55/53 (amalgamated) Infantry Battalion AMF, embarked Torokina for Melbourne via Rabaul on board Kanimbla
5 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX111684

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Henry Maxwell Holdsworth (Service No:VX111684) initially served in the ACMF (Driver; Service No:V170551) with 15th Infantry Training Battalion and 6 Battalion VDC from 3 October 1941 to 7 October 1942. Private Holdsworth was 'in the field' in Geraldton when he enlisted in the AIF on 8 October 1942 and served with 55/53 Infantry Battalion in the South West Pacific Region (Torokina, Bougainville, Rabaul) from 6 December 1944 to 12 January 1946. Private Holdsworth was attached to 55/53 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 5 February 1946.

Henry was born in Terang, Victoria in 1921, third of five children of Ernest Holdsworth (b1890 in Geelong, Victoria) and second wife Annie Hollaway (b1895 in Benalla, Victoria). Ernest (a Widower with one child) was a Farmer at Hexham via Mortlake and Annie was a Dressmaker in Mortlake in 1918 when they married in Casterton. Ernest and Annie settled in Hexham via Mortlake where they raised their family and Ernest was a Farmer/Grazier.

Henry was working as a Farmer at Hexham via Mortlake in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army. In 1941 in Mortlake he married Mavis Lillian Jewell (b1923 in Warnambool, Victoria). Following his Discharge, Henry worked as a Drover at Spring Creek via Koroit, Victoria and in the early 1950s he and Mavis settled in Hawkesbury via Koroit where they raised their family and Henry was a Farmer. In 1968 they moved to Geelong, where Henry died in 1976. Mavis died in 2016.

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