SIMMONS, Henry
| Service Number: | 14524 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Plympton, South Australia, Australia, 12 October 1889 |
| Home Town: | Gilberton, Walkerville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stonemason |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 15 March 1951, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Dudley Park Cemetery, South Australia Buried with his sister Catherine Foster, brother Stanley Patching (nee Simmons)and niece Thelma Lange |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 14524, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
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| 11 Jul 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 14524, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Vestalia embarkation_ship_number: A44 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Jul 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 14524, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Vestalia, Sydney | |
| 23 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, 14524, Discharged 4 Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of William Simmons and Louisa James; brother of Frederick James Simmons, Catherine Simmons, Stanley Leslie John William Patching (born Simmons) and Violet Hilda Grace Simmons.
Husband of Dorothy James Douglas; they had no children
Henry is a member of possibly one of he most disfuntional families of their times but they all turned out to be good honest and hard working people
He and his siblings many years in foster care before Henry somehow found his way to England where he joined the Royal Navy from which he deserted in 1910 and returned to Australia.
He was a stonemason and according to the family he was responsible for the manufacture of the marble stair case in the now Samuel Way Building in Victoria Square Adelaide
5 January 1919 - Returned to Australia on board Suevic
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal