PAUL , Henry Mitchell
| Service Number: | 2051 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1915, 14th Reinforcements |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 101st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery |
| Born: | Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 8 November 1894 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Quarryman |
| Died: | Accidental, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 May 1926, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 10 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2051, 4th Light Horse Regiment, 14th Reinforcements | |
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| 28 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 2051, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 2051, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 30 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Division Cyclist Company | |
| 22 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st ANZAC Cyclist Battalion | |
| 15 Feb 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 101st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery | |
| 20 Apr 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 2051, 101st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery, per Boonah | |
| 31 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 2051, 101st Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Henry was the sixth of seven children of John Paul (born 1852 at Kangaroo Flat in Victoria) and Margaret Parker Hislop (born 1856 at Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria). John was a Miner when he married Margaret in 1881 at Kangaroo Flat, Bendigo in Victoria. John and Margaret settled at Walhalla in Victoria where Joh was a Mine working at Black Diamond - apart from a brief period in QLD where son Robert was born in 1891. John died in 1908 and Margaret moved to Melbourne before travelling to Western Australia where she married Alexander Gordon at Kalgoorlie- Boulder in 1915.
Henry was working as a Quarryman in Melbourne, Victoria when he enlisted in the AIF in September 1915. He served as a Private (Service No:2051) with 4th Light Horse Regiment, 1st Division Cycle Corps and 1st Anzac Cyclist Battalion before transferring as a Driver to 101 Field Artillery Brigae (Howitzer) in 1918. Henry was Discharged in July 1919. Brother Oliver (Private, Service No:6870) also served in WWI.
In 1919 in Fremantle, WA Henry married widowed Grace Herron (nee Cade, born 1890 in Cairns, QLD) and they moved to Melbourne where Grace died in 1920. Henry was working as a Locomotive Fireman in 1926 when he was 'struck by an engine and killed during shunting operations at the North Melbourne railway yards' (The Register, Tues 11 May 1926, p10)