Henry Hans PEDERSEN

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PEDERSEN, Henry Hans

Service Number:	142
Enlisted:	29 March 1915, Emerald, Queensland
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 17 May 1888
Home Town:	Rockhampton, Rockhampton, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway employee
Died:	Died of Illness (POW of Germany), Wallerstein, Germany, 31 October 1918, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	Niederzwehren Cemetery
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Gracemere Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

29 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 142, Emerald, Queensland
24 May 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 142, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane
24 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 142, 26th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
4 Sep 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 142, 26th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
29 Jul 1916:	Wounded Private, 142, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , GSW (head and thigh)
26 Mar 1917:	Imprisoned German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line and Outpost Villages, Lagnicourt, France
26 Mar 1917:	Wounded Private, 142, 26th Infantry Battalion, German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line and Outpost Villages, 2nd occasion - GSW (hip)
31 Oct 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 142, 26th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

"...142 Pte Hans Henry Petersen (alias Pedersen) from Rockhampton, Qld... from the 26th Battalion. Pte Petersen enlisted on 29 March 1915 at the age of 27 and embarked for overseas on 24 May 1915 aboard HMAT Ascanius. He saw service at Gallipoli before going on to serve in France where he was wounded in the buttock on 29 July 1916. After being invalided to England, he rejoined his unit in France a month before being again wounded, this time in the right hip, and captured at Lagnicourt, France on 26 March 1917. He was held as a POW in Germany and died of double pneumonia at Wallerstein Krankenhaus [hospital] in Bavaria. He was buried at Ehringen and then after the war, was re-interred at Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Germany..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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