WHITEFORD, Herbert Edward
Service Number: | Officer |
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Enlisted: | 13 May 1918, Armidale, NSW |
Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements |
Born: | Queanbeyan, NSW, 25 March 1894 |
Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Commercial Traveller |
Died: | Dalby, Qld., 29 January 1935, aged 40 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Dalby Cemetery, Qld |
Memorials: | Sydney Henry Bull & Co Limited Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
13 May 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, Armidale, NSW | |
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17 Jul 1918: | Involvement 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
17 Jul 1918: | Embarked 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, HMAT Borda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Edward and Catherine WHITEFORD
Lieut. H. E. Whiteford.
The death occurred at the Dalby Sanatorium on Wednesday morning of Lieut. H. E. Whiteford, of the Second Battalion, A.I.F. He had only been an inmate of the Sanatorium for a few days but had been there some years ago. He was engaged a a traveller for Ward's Motor Coy Valley, Brisbane, and leaves a wife and daughter, who reside in Sydney. The funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon, the coffin being draped with a Union Jack and Messrs R. B. Gillespie, R. Haddock and A. H. C. Waine (Dalby sub-branch of the R.S.S.L.L.A.), along with Mr. J Hill, acted as pallbearers. Rev. J. Blake (Presbyterian Church) officiated at the graveside.