FLOWERS, Harry
| Service Number: | 1119 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, Newcastle New South Wales, Australia, 11 February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Young Wallsend (Edgeworth), New South Wales, Australia, 27 August 1967, aged 71 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-02. 66. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1119, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1119, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 13 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1119, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 11 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1119, 36th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines, GSW chest, face and left arm severe | |
| 3 Jul 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1119, 36th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, MU due to wounding |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
53 years ago today, on the 29th August 1967, Private Harry Flowers, 36th Battalion (Reg No-1119), a clipper in the mines, of Young Wallsend, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 71. METHODIST 4-02. 66.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 11th February 1896 to John and Charlotte Flowers of Young Wallsend, N.S.W.; husband of Elsie May Flowers nee Wellings (married 1945, Sydney, N.S.W., died?), Harry enlisted March 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 11.6.1917 (GSW left arm, face, chest, Battle of Messines), then invalided to England 8.8.1917 (GSW chest, dangerously ill), Harry returned home January 1918, being discharged as medically unfit on the 3rd July 1918.
Harry’s name has been inscribed on the West Wallsend Superior Public School Honour Roll (photos, as FLOWERS, E. Unveiled date unknown). Name would be inscribed on the West Wallsend Loyal Pride Lodge, No.156, M.U.I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140975236. Name not inscribed on the Young Wallsend Roll of Honour.
There is no inscription on Mr Flowers’s headstone plaque to tell us of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label, kindly supplied by Andrea Gerrard and John Thomas, to honour his duty for God, King and Country.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=30025#2
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.
Lest We Forget.
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