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BATTLE, Harold Clarence Teal
| Service Number: | 33 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 December 1915, at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, August 1897 |
| Home Town: | Torrensville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 12 August 1967, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 13 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 33, 43rd Infantry Battalion, at Adelaide | |
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| 9 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 33, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 33, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide | |
| 26 May 1918: | Wounded Private, 33, 43rd Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, Gas injury |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide High School
Harold Clarence Teal Battle was born in Adelaide in approximately August 1897. He lived with his mother, Mrs Amy Harris, on Norma Street, Torrensville in South Australia. Battle attended a Congregational church and worked as a labourer prior to the war. He had brown hair, fair skin, and grey eyes; he weighed 124 lbs (56 kg) and was 5ft 7½ (approx. 175 cm). Battle was 18 years old and 4 months when he enlisted in the war.
When he was younger, Battle served in the 75th battalion for senior cadets for 3 years. He enlisted in the army on the 13th of December 1915, starting out ranked as a private. Initially, he joined the A Company of the 2nd depot battalion and stayed there from the 4th to the 31st of January 1916. On the 1st of February he transferred to the A Company of the 1st depot battalion and was transferred again to the A Company of the 43rd battalion on the 7th of March 1916, which he stayed with throughout the war.
Battle embarked from Australia on the 9th of June 1916 and arrived in France on the 25th of November of that same year. Battle was admitted to hospital many times throughout his service due to various illnesses and injuries. During the German Spring Offensive, he was gassed on the 26th of May 1918, and was admitted to hospital in France the following day. He was admitted to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley, England on the 4th of June 1918 for treatment.
Harold Clarence Teal Battle fortunately survived the war and returned to Australia via the ship “Orca” which embarked on the 19th of February 1919 and disembarked on the 29th of March 1919. Battle passed away on the 12th of August in 1967, and he has a plaque in the Queensland Garden of Remembrance commemorated to him.