VAN HEYTHUYSEN, Richard Herbert
Service Number: | 20304 |
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Enlisted: | 7 August 1917, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 8th Field Company Engineers |
Born: | Newton, New South Wales, Australia, 26 July 1899 |
Home Town: | Enmore, Inner West Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Sanitary Engineer |
Died: | New South Wales, Australia, 15 January 1987, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Anglican Section 8, Grave 540-541 |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
7 Aug 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20304, Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW | |
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21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 20304, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 20304, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
21 Aug 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 8th Field Company Engineers, From Field Company Engineer reinforcements | |
13 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 20304, 8th Field Company Engineers, Discharged at the 2nd Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Richard Gerad Heythuysen and Emily Elizabeth Van Heythuysen nee Gibson of Charles Street, Enmore, NSW.
Commenced return to Australia on 5 July 1919 aboard HT Port Melbourne disembarking on 21 August 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney.
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
During 1921c Richard married Beulah Hay in Sydney, NSW