HOLZ, Peter Jacob
| Service Number: | 177 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, 2.5 years service 6th Light Horse |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | Corps Artillery Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries |
| Born: | Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, 2 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 3 November 1942, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-60. 2. |
| Memorials: | Singleton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 177, 1st Light Horse Regiment, 2.5 years service 6th Light Horse | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Driver, 177, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Driver, 177, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 4th Division Artillery | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 10th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 21 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 8 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF | |
| 21 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 177, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF, German Spring Offensive 1918, mustard gas | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 177, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF, The Battle of Amiens, GSW left foot, face, left thigh, right hand, severe | |
| 2 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 177, Corps Artillery Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac who served and suffered during The Great War now resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
80 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 5th November 1942, Gunner Peter Jacob Holz, Australian Corps Heavy Trench Mortar Battery (Reg No-177), farmer from Clydesdale, New South Wales and 5 Clara Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., father of four (Patrick, Donald, Clare, Mavis), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 51. CATHOLIC 2-60. 2.
Born at Singleton, New South Wales on the 2nd November 1891 to Peter and Margaret Holz; husband of Mary (May) Elizabeth Holz nee Quarzellhan or Warzellhan or Watson (married 1920, Singleton, N.S.W., died 1971, 29 years a widow, sleeping here), Peter enlisted August 1914 with the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment at Sydney, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 26.5.1915 (dysentery), 23.6.1915 (tonsilitis), 10.9.1915 (enteritis), 14.6.1916 (influenza).
Accidently injured 14.8.1916 (sprained right wrist).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80443953 - report that Driver P. J. Holz has returned to duty.
Wounded in action - 17.3.1918 (wounded? and mustard gas, mild), 8.8.1918 (GSW left foot, face, left thigh, right hand, severe).
Granted 75 days leave (Special 1914 Leave), 30.10.1918 to 7.2.1919.
Peter returned home on the 23rd April 1919, being discharged on the 2nd July 1919.
Mr. Holz’s name has been inscribed on the Singleton War Memorial and the Glendon and District First World War Roll of Honour (photo, 37 names inscribed, 10 Fallen, unveiled date unknown, located at the Glendon Community Hall, Glendon Road, Glendon, N.S.W.). Name not inscribed on the Singleton Superior Public School Roll of Honour.
There is no indication inscribed on Peter’s headstone plaque of his service and sacrifice with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of this Original Anzac who returned home.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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