WAINWRIGHT, Harold Arthur Drake
| Service Number: | 705 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, NSW, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Fort Street Boys High School |
| Occupation: | Civil Servant |
| Died: | 4 January 1975, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club WW1 Pictorial Honour Roll, Sydney Commonwealth Bank of Australia Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 705, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 705, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Private H. A. 1). Wainwright (wounded) is the son of Mr. E. A. C. Wainwright, of the Department of Agriculture and of “ Bingara,” Bondi. He enlisted in August, 1914, and took part in the first landing at Gallipoli. He was in hospital at Cairo for three weeks in May, suffering from the effects of a shell explosion and rheumatics caused by lying out unconscious for 10 hours on a cold and wet night. He returned to the front on June 1. Private Wainwright is a member of the Bondi Sirf-Bathers’ Life-saving Club, and previous to enlisting was employed in the Government Savings Bank, Moore-street. He 's an old Fort street School boy and is 23 years of age.