Henry Joseph HOWARTH

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HOWARTH, Henry Joseph

Service Number:	564
Enlisted:	22 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 10 April 1895
Home Town:	Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Workshop "Engineer"
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 19 May 1915, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli Plot 1V, Row A, Grave 18
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board

World War 1 Service

22 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 564, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
18 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 564, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
18 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 564, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of James and Mary Jane Howarth of 'Ascot', Glen Street, Marrickville, NSW

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Also served in the Militia

PRIVATE H. HOWARTH.
Private Henry Howarth (killed in action on May 19), was only 20 years of age, and at the time of enlisting was apprenticed to the engineering trade at Eveleigh workshops. He and his two brothers. Alex, and Alfred, now at the front, were well known in Marrickville.

Biography contributed by John Oakes

Henry Joseph HOWARTH (Service Number 564) was born on 10th February 1895 at Marrickville. He began work for the NSW Government Railways as a shop boy at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshop on 22nd August 1910. In April 1911 he became an apprentice fitter.

He was unmarried at the time of his enlistment at Randwick on 22nd August 1914. He gave his mother as his next of kin. He claimed that he had been with the 34th Battalion of the Militia since July 1913. He was allocated to the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion. He left Australia through Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Afric’ on 18th October 1914.

After further training in Egypt he embarked from Alexandria for the Gallipoli Campaign on 5th April 1915 and was thus among those who landed on Anzac Day or soon after.

Howarth was killed in action on 19th May 1915 and buried at the New Monash Valley Cemetery. This cemetery has been renamed and is now known as Shrapnel Valley Cemetery.

- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.

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