REDMAN, Harold Selby
| Service Number: | 6293 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Denman, New South Wales, Australia, 20 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Denman, Muswellbrook, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery II. B. 6. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Goulburn District Railway Employees Great War Honour Roll, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Hornsby War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6293, 5th Field Ambulance, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 13 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 6293, 5th Field Ambulance, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 6293, 5th Field Ambulance, HMAT Port Lincoln, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Harold Selby REDMAN (Service Number 6293) was born on 20th November 1888 at Denman. On 27th August 1907 he took up the role of Gatekeeper in the Murrurundi District in the Traffic Branch of the NSW Governmen Railways. The next year his job was described as a junior porter and in 1909 he relocated from Murrurundi to the ‘Superintendent of Lines District’. In 1909, once he was 21-years-old, he became a porter, and in 1910 a weigh clerk at Tighes Hill (Newcastle). Two years later he moved to Goulburn as a clerk and on 7th September 1914 moved again to Hornsby. It was from this location that he was released to join the Expeditionary Forces on 17th June 1915.
He enlisted at Liverpool the next day giving his father, Mr Redman, at Denman as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 6th Reinforcements to the 5th Field Ambulance of the Australian Medical Corps, Redman embarked HMAT ‘Port Lincoln’ at Sydney on 13th October 1915. His time in Egypt was brief for he proceeded through Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli on 4th December 1915 and was evacuated from Suvla Bay to Malta with mumps on 12th December. The whole peninsula was evacuated a few days later so he never returned there. However, he did go back to Alexandria, arriving on 27th March 1916. He went to hospital at Heliopolis on the same day with bronchitis. He was not discharged from hospital until 19th April.
On 3rd May he was in hospital again, now with measles. He embarked ‘Corsican’ at Alexandria on 28th May, bound for England and the Australian Postal Corps at Mount Pleasant, where he took up duty on 18th September 1916. In April 1917 he was still with the Army Post Office but located in London. He had another admission to hospital at this time, but the disease is not specified. He did not return to the Post Office, but to his original unit, the 5th Field Ambulance, which he joined in France on 6th July 1917.
On 5 thSeptember 1917 Redman was admitted to the 7th Field Ambulance with ‘Errors of Refraction’ for two days. About 20th September he sustained a gunshot wound to his left leg and he died at that time at the 6th Australian Field Ambulance. No details survive as to the location or circumstances of Redman’s death.
He was buried at the Belgian Battery Corner Military Cemetery, 1-mile SW of Ypres.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.