Harold Thomas EWART

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EWART, Harold Thomas

Service Number:	Depot
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Depot Battalion
Born:	Upper Yarra, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Ballarat East State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Draughtsman
Died:	Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 25 August 1915, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria
Memorials:	Brown Hill Queen Street State School No 1998 Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

Date unknown:	Involvement Private, Depot, Depot Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Harold Thomas Ewart was the son of Walter John and Annie Mabel Ewart of North Ballarat, Victoria.

His older brother, 4344 Pte. Eric John Ewart 7th Battalion AIF was killed in action near Flers on 6 November 1916, aged 25.

Harold enlisted on 17 July 1915 in Ballarat at the age of 22. He had only just married to Eleanor Elizabeth Stevenson the same year. He died of meningitis in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, on 25 August 1915. His body was sent to Ballarat for burial.

Eleanor was awarded a pension of 52 pounds per annum.

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