DENNIS, Horace Rudolph
| Service Number: | 12 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Pontville, Tas. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Flowery Gully, Beaconsfield, Tas., 12 November 1895 |
| Home Town: | Beaconsfield, West Tamar, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Beaconsfield State School |
| Occupation: | Civil Servant - Letter Carrier |
| Died: | Due to war service, At home, 4 Cardigan Street, Launceston, Tas., 27 May 1946, aged 50 years |
| Cemetery: |
Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania Cremation Memorials, Western Wall, A, 23 |
| Memorials: | Hobart Postmaster-General's Department WW1 Honour Roll, Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 12, 12th Infantry Battalion, Pontville, Tas. | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 12, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 12, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of George G and Elizabeth H DENNIS, Beconsfield, Tas.
POSTAL OFFICIAL GAOLED
LAUNCESTON, November 13. 1937
The theft of a letter while it was being sorted at tho launceston Post Office yesterday by Horace Rudolph Dennis, a mail sorter, had its sequel
in the City Policy Court this morning, when he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
How the district postal inspector (Mr W. J. Kearns) posted a letter containing marked bank notes and postage stamps at Devonport, and how Dennis was later found in the Launceston mail room with the notes in his wallet was described by Detective Burke. Dennis admitted the theft from the mail.
Listed on Beaconsfield State School Roll of Honour ('Esse Quam Videri': To be Be rather than to Seem)
DENNIS - On May 27, at h is residence, 4 Cardigan St., Launceston, Horace R. beloved husband of Valetta L Dennis, and loving father of Peggy, Margaret and Graeme, and beloved son of Mrs. Elizabeth H Dennis, and the late George Dennis, of Beaconsfield. In his 50th year. Late 12th Battalion, 1st A.I.F. Private cremation, Tuesday afternoon - C.T. Finney, A.F.D.A. 16 Brisbane Street.