RODDA, Harold Chris
| Service Number: | 175 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Farrier Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Daylesford, Victoria, Australia, 11 July 1890 |
| Home Town: | Thorpdale, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 December 1967, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Shoeing-Smith, 175, 4th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement 175, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked 175, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 10 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Shoeing-Smith, 175, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 7 Jul 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Farrier Sergeant, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps) | |
| 12 Mar 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Farrier Sergeant, 175, 2nd ANZAC Corps Mounted Regiment (XXII Corps), embarked England for Melbourne on board Kenilworth Castle, transhipped to Field Marshall at Capetown | |
| 25 Jun 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Farrier Sergeant, 175, 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Harold Christopher Rodda (Service No:175) enlisted in the AIF on 19 August 1914 as a Private/Shoeing Smith with 4th Light Horse Regiment. He embarked from Melbourne for Egypt with his Unit on 19 October 1914 on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire. Private Rodda was hospitalised with mumps in Abassia, and served in Tel El Kebir and Heliopolis before embarking from Alexandria for Marseilles on 10 June 1916. Promoted to Farrier Sergeant on 7 July 1916, he served in France with 2nd Anzac Light Horse Regiment, and was evacuated to hospital in England - Diptheria and Quinsy. Sergeant Rodda embarked from England for Melbourne on 12 March 1918 on board the Kenilworth Castle, transhipping at Capetown to the Field Marshall. Sergeant Rodda was attached to 2nd Light Horse Regiment at Discharge on 25 June 1918. In WWII he served in the AIF and ACMF, and sons Wilfred and Ivan also served in WWII.
Harold was born in Daylesford, Victoria in 1890, seventh of fifteen children of John Rodda (b1860 in Creswick, Victoria) and Annie James Botheras (b1860 in Bendigo, Victoria). John (a Bootmaker) and Annie married in 1880 in Daylesford, where they settled and raised their family and John was a Labourer and Farmer/Grazier.
Harold was a Farmer (Dairy and Potatoes) in Thorpdale via Moe when he enlisted in the AIF in 1914. Following his Discharge, in 1919 in Trafalgar via Moe, he married Alice Mary Stirling (b1896 in Bendigo, Victoria). Harold and Alice settled in Thorpdale via Moe where they raised their family and Harold was a Farmer before moving to Melbourne in the mid 1920s, where he worked as a Labourer. In the 1930s Harold and his family lived in Wodonga, where Harold worked as a Blacksmith and in 1940 when he enlisted in the Army, he was Farmer/Grazier in Sale. Through the 1940s/1950s Harold and Alice lived in Morwell and Tynong where Harold was a Farmer before settling in Melbourne in the early 1960s - Harold was a Process Worker. Harold died in 1967 and Alice in 1971.
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