Herbert Bowen HAMLIN DSO, MID

HAMLIN, Herbert Bowen

Service Number: Lieutenant
Enlisted: 28 October 1914
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: 10th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Panmure, Auckland, New Zealand, 1885
Home Town: Narrogin, Narrogin, Western Australia
Schooling: St John's College, Auckland, New Zealand, and Sydney Grammar School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Surveyor
Died: Pericarditis, Egypt, 30 May 1919
Cemetery: Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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Memorials: Albany War Memorial, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Midland Officers & Contract Surveyors of the Department of Lands & Surveys WA Honour Roll, Narrogin War Memorial, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

28 Oct 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment
17 Feb 1915: Involvement Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: ''
17 Feb 1915: Embarked Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Surada, Fremantle
5 Mar 1919: Honoured Mention in Dispatches
8 Mar 1919: Honoured Companion of the Distinguished Service Order
30 May 1919: Involvement Major, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Major awm_died_date: 1919-05-30

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Biography contributed

Herbert Bowen HAMLIN was born in Panmure, New Zealand in 1885

His parents names were John Preston Herbert HAMLIN & mary Bowen PEARSE who married in New Zealand in 1884

He married Mary Grace LOUCH in Albany, Western Australia in 1916