HAVILAH, Anthony Joseph
| Service Number: | 3406 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 October 1916, Lismore, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Corndale, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia, 16 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Corndale, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Corndale Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Dernancourt, France, 20 April 1918, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot II, Row F, Grave 5, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Lismore & District Memorial Honour Roll, Lismore Corndale Loyal Empire Lodge No 226 M.U.I.O.O.F. Great War Roll of Honor, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3406, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Lismore, NSW | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3406, 52nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3406, 52nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ayrshire, Sydney | |
| 20 Apr 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3406, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Dernancourt/Ancre |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Anthony Joseph HAVILAH was born in Corndale, Richmond River, NSW on 16th March, 1894
His parents were Eugene Antoni HAVILAH and Caroline Susanna BREWER who married in Sydney in 1879
He married Daisy HUDSON in Lismore in 1916 & then enlisted in Lismore on 24th October, 1916 & embarked with the 52nd Infantry Battalion, 9th reinforcements from Sydney on the HMAT Ayrshire on 24th January, 1917
Anthony was Killed in Action at Dernancourt in France on 20th April, 1918 and was buried in an isolated grave - later on he was reburied in the Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery - his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial
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