NEILSEN, Harold Ernest
Service Number: | 2073 |
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Enlisted: | 2 September 1915, Lithgow, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
Born: | Forbes, New South Wales, 28 August 1896 |
Home Town: | Forbes, Forbes, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Natural causes (myocardial degeneration), Redfern, New South Wales, 5 May 1977, aged 80 years |
Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW Ashes Scattered |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
2 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2073, Lithgow, New South Wales | |
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16 Mar 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2073, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Malakuta embarkation_ship_number: A57 public_note: '' | |
16 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2073, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Malakuta, Sydney | |
30 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 2073, 1st Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Beverley Neilsen
Private Harold Earnest Neilsen son of Peter Neilsen of Forbes New South Wales enlisted Sepetember 1915 into the Autralian Imperial Force 14th Reindorcements 7th Light Horse Regiment, and he embarked on the same Troopship (Malakuta) as his brother 2661 Pte. Norman Neilsen (/explore/people/328182).
According to the Forbes Advocate New South Wales both brothers had written a letter together and placed it inside a bottle the dropped it into the Pacific somewhere near Cap Leeuwin. It was washed up on the beach at Bremar Bay, near Albany West Australia and the postmaster there sent it onto Forbes New Soth Wales.
Private Harold Earnes Neilsen returned home to Austraila in 1919 where he meet his loving bride to be Doris Evelynand raised 6 children together in Refern Sydney home of his beloved South Sydney Rabittohs.
Private Harold Eranest was a young 80 when he passed.
We will remember
Beverley Lorraine Neilsen (January 2017)