HEWSON, Harry John (Henry John)
Service Number: | 3860 |
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Enlisted: | 14 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Ararat, Victoria, 28 November 1895 |
Home Town: | Ararat, Ararat, Victoria |
Schooling: | Ararat State School |
Occupation: | Bank clerk |
Died: | Natural causes, Melbourne, Victoria, 1 November 1975, aged 79 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
14 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 3860, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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23 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 3860, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1 | |
23 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, SN 3860, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
20 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Infantry Battalion |
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Name change evidence, ie Harry, not Henry:
Australia Birth Index transcription (Ancestry)
Name: Harry Jno Hewson
Birth Date: Abt 1893
Birth Place: Ararat, Victoria
Registration Year: 1893
Registration Place: Victoria, Australia
Father: Jno Thos Hewson
Mother: Bertha Ann Beere
Registration Number: 14
Discovering Anzacs page for Harry John Hewson including scan of original war record:
http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/213069
From The Argus newspaper, Melbourne, Saturday 13 August 1921:-
"HEWSON-HARE.- On the 23rd July, at Methodist parsonage, Brighton, by the Rev. A. Madsen, Harry John, son of the late John T. and Bertha Hewson, of Ararat, to Isabel, daughter of Isabel and the late David Hare. Present address, "Langi," 57 Elster avenue, Gardenvale."
From the Victoria Rate Books:-
"Occupier Name: Harry John Hewson
Residence Date: 9 Jan 1922
Residence Place: Caulfield, Victoria, Australia"