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VAN HEYTHUYSEN, Richard Herbert

Service Number:	20304
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
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Biography 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