Harold William HORSELL

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HORSELL, Harold William

Service Number:	15929
Enlisted:	16 June 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 14 April 1895
Home Town:	Black Forest, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Machinist
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 30 October 1977, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Barrabool Hills Cemetery, Victoria Plot: HGH-LAWN-AN-808-35 'Unmarked Grave'
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World War 1 Service

16 Jun 1916:	Enlisted
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 15929, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 15929, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
1 Nov 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 15929, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, embarked England for Adelaide on board HT A68 Anchises; Transport Duty
20 Feb 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 15929, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 15929

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Harold William Horsell (Service No:15929) initially served in the Senior Cadets and Militia (Service No:102) prior to enlisting for 'Active Duty' in the AIF on 16 June 1916. Private Horsell was attached to Army Medical Corps on 25 October 1916 when he embarked from Adelaide for Plymouth on board HMAT A38 Ulysses. Private Horsell served in France on Ambulance Duty, and embarked from England for Adelaide on 1 November 1917 - on Transport Duty - on board HT A68 Anchises. Privat Horsell was attached to 2 Australian General Hospital at Discharge on 20 February 1918 (Medically Unfit).

Harold was born in Black Forest, Adelaide, South Australia in 1895, second of five children of Albert William Horsell (b1868 at Callington via Mt Barker, South Australia) and Janet Augusta Elder (b1868 in Burra, South Australia). William and Janet married in 1890 in Adelaide, and settled at Black Forest, where they raised their family and Albert was a Teamster and Storeman.

Harold started work with the Adelaide Daily Herald in 1910 as a Letter Press Machinist and, following his Discharge from the Army, was in Adelaide in 1920 when he married Mary (Nellie) Ellen Willoughby (b1892 in Lancashire, England) - Nellie was a Reeler in a Cotton Mill in 1913 when she immigrated, arriving in Adelaide on board the Irishman. Harold and Nellie settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Harold worked as a Machinist. Nellie died in 1970 and Harold in 1977.

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