LAWRENCE, Harold Thomas
| Service Number: | 2442 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Botany, New South Wales, Australia, 12 October 1894 |
| Home Town: | Yarrawonga, Moira, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, 26 August 1964, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Frankston Memorial Park and Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 2442, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 2442, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Julie Bonar
This is my grandfather who I never got to meet. He married my grandmother in 1921 and they had 3 sons Robert, Thomas (my father) and Donald. My grandparents divorced when my father was only young and he remarried again. My father unfortunately had no contact with his father after the divorce and never spoke of him. According to my grandmother he was quite a cruel man, prone to bad tempers and would often belt his eldest son. I have come to the conclusion after having spoken to his youngest sons wife that he returned from the war with what would now be called PTS, this would have affected him a great deal. He served in the 8th Battalion in the trenches I believe and was discharged with Trench Fever. No wonder he suffered.
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