EDWARDSEN, Hilmar
| Service Number: | 1937 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rakkistad, Norway, October 1888 |
| Home Town: | Mittagong, Wingecarribee, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Labourer |
| Died: | Bronchial pneumonia, France, 27 December 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Heilly Station Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Mittagong War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 1937, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1937, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1937, 60th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Hilmar EDWARDSEN, (Service Number 1937) was employed in the Permanent Way Branch of the Railways.
He had been born, about October 1888, at Rakkistad, Norway and was a naturalised British subject. His address prior to enlistment was Main Street, Mittagong, and he joined the AIF at Casula on 27 January 1916, giving his calling as ‘carpenter’s labourer’, stated that he was unmarried and named his mother, Ellen Karine Hansen, in Norway as his next of kin.
He left Australia through Melbourne aboard HMAT ‘Port Lincoln’ on 4 May 1916.
Submitted 26 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Hilmar EDWARDSEN, (Service Number 1937) was employed in the Permanent Way Branch of the Railways.
He had been born about October 1888 at Rakkistad, Norway and was a naturalised British subject. His address prior to enlistment was Main Street, Mittagong, and he joined the AIF at Casula on 27th January 1916. He gave his occupation as ‘carpenter’s labourer’ He stated that he was unmarried and named his mother, Ellen Karine Hansen, in Norway as his next of kin.
He left Australia from Melbourne aboard HMAT ‘Port Lincoln’ on 4th May 1916. He was allotted to the 60th Australian Infantry Battalion. He disembarked at Suez on 10th June 191. Six weeks later he left via Alexandria and Marseilles to England. In November he went to France . He was taken on the strength of the 60th Battalion. At the end of 1916 he was admitted to hospital due to sickness. He died of illness, bronchio-pneumonia, at the 38th Casualty Clearing Station on 27th December. He is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, Picardie, France.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board