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War Memorial
Australia

Driver Harold Tuck was born in the family home, 'The Retreat', Powers Road, Seven Hills, in the year 1895. He was the second-youngest child of John Isaac and Agness Sarah (nee Brennan) Tuck.
Before he joined the Army, Harold was a horse breaker, and he was also a former Wentworthville greengrocer. When he was young, he attended The Meadows Primary School, and he was a member of the Toongabbie School of Arts. His locality was Seven Hills, and his next of kin was his father, John Isaac Tuck, of Seven Hills.
Harold Tuck tried to enlist at Lancer Barracks for the army, but his mother 'got him out' because he was simply too young. He promptly enlisted again because a 'neighbour' sent him a White Feather to him. He enlisted at Holsworthy on 18 September 1915 and embarked from Sydney via the SS 'Hawkes Bay' on 23 October 1915. He was 21.
Harold Tuck went to serve in the Australian Army with the 1st Light Horse Regiment in Egypt and Palestine, in the First World War, which lasted from 1914-1918. On September 1916, Harold fell seriously ill with paratyphus fever and was hospitalised in Cairo, Egypt during the war.
Harold Tuck was wounded by a bomb dropped from a German aeroplane at Beersheba, Palestine, Ottoman Empire, on the 31st of October, 1917. A day after he obtained his wounds, Harold Tuck died from those same wounds on the 1st of November, 1917, at the age of 23. He is buried in the Beersheba War Cemetery in Palestine.
He received no military medals or awards. However, Tucks Road is named after Harold Tuck and they commemorate his bravery.
His name is displayed on these Rolls of Honour: Blacktown Soldiers' Memorial, Roll of Honour of the Meadows Public School, Seven Hills Roll of Honour, St Mary's Church of England and Sunday School Memorial Toongabbie, and the Toongabbie District Roll of Honour at Toongabbie Public School.