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HENDERSON, Edward Osmond

Service Number:	238
Enlisted:	3 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Muloowurtie, South Australia, Australia, 10 February 1887
Home Town:	Ardrossan, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Moulder
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 28 January 1917, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Picardie Plot X, Row X, Grave No. 1
Memorials:	Ardrossan & District WW1 Honor Roll, Ardrossan School Roll of Honor, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Pine Point Muloowurtie Memorial Institute , The South Australian National War Memorial

World War 1 Service

3 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 238, 8th Machine Gun Company
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 238, 8th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
20 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 238, Following a period of hospitalisation (commencing 20 June 1916) with illness he was admitted to the Australian Training Depot in Tel-el-Kebir. This was followed by a transfer to the Machine Gun Depot in France in early December 1916.
2 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 8th Machine Gun Company
28 Jan 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 238, 8th Machine Gun Company, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17, Killed in Action in France on this day. Service Medals: British War Medal; Vicotry Medal. Family received Memorial plaque and scroll. His service and sacrifice is honouired and remembered.

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