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6410 Horace Eldred JARRAD was born at Mount Gambier on 3 November 1893.356 He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 21 January 1907 by his mother, Elizabeth Jarrad, of the Hundred of Blanche, near Mount Gambier. He left school on 22 December 1909.

On Saturday 10 September 1915 he was farewelled by ‘fellow employees at the South Eastern Star who presented him with a wrist watch and the proprietor, Mr Alf Clark, gave him a set of brushes’ and left Mount Gambier by train on Monday 12 September to go into camp. He enlisted in Adelaide on 15 September 1915 (20, monoline operator, single, Church of England) naming his mother, Mrs Elizabeth Jarrad, c/o GPO Mount Gambier, as his next of kin, and embarked from Sydney on the ‘Armadale’ on 20 March 1916, disembarking at Alexandria in Egypt on 24 April. He embarked again at Alexandria on 28 May on the ‘Briton’.

He was sent to France on 6 August 1916 and joined the 3rd Field Company Engineers on 22 September 1916. He was granted leave to England from 19 October to 1 November 1917, hospitalised on 26 February 1918 with nasal catarrh and evacuated to England on 14 March. He was discharged to furlough from 26 March to 9 April, married 24-year-old Agnes Violet Saltain at St Andrews Church, Bournemouth on 26 June, and returned to France on 27 August, re-joining his unit on 2 September. He was hospitalised with impetigo (a bacterial infection better known today as ‘school sores’) from 14 to 23 October. In March 1919 he left France for England and left England with his wife and child on the ‘Indarra’ on 12 July 1919, disembarking on 3 September and was discharged on 27 October. He and other soldiers were tendered a welcome home at Compton Downs Public School in 1919, on which occasion his new wife was presented with a set of kitchen utensils by the Compton Red Cross.

Horace E. Jarrad was one of the many brave souls to serve in World War 1. At the age of 20, he submitted his enrolement form to join the war on the 15th of September, 1915, just over a year after the war had begun. Horace Jarrad was born in Mt. Gambier, South Australia in 1894 and later wedded Agnes Violet (later Agnes Jarrad). Sometime through this marriage, he had 2 children. Prior to enlisting, Horace worked as a monolinar operator.

The mandatory medical examination he underwent describes him as a 5'4½", 132lb male with tan skin, brown hair and blue eyes. 

In World War 1, Horace E. Jarrad served in the 3rd Field Company Engineers as a sapper. The objective of the 3rd Field Company Engineers was to maintain and map positions, provide information about the enemy and perform other minute tasks. He, along with the rest of his unit, were stationed at Tel-El-Kabir Military Base in Egypt. There, his unit would move to Alexandria as a group. Horace himself would go on leave to the UK, returning to France with the rest of his unit when he was ready.

In 1918, Horace spent a large amount of time in England (from February to August) and then returned France. He would remain in France until the end of the war. He returned to Australia on the 5th of May, 1919. The latest military document relating to Horace E. Jarrad is a medical record request in 1962, meaning that Horace survived both the first and second world war.