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BERKSHIRE, Harold George
| Service Number: | 2927 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 February 1916, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Melrose, SA, 15 January 1898 |
| Home Town: | Goolwa, Alexandrina, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Daw Park, SA, 20 November 1968, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Location: RSL, Wall 136, Niche D010 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Port Lincoln & District Honor Roll WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | |
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| 24 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2927, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2927, 9th Light Horse Regiment, RMS Mooltan, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2927, 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 15 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Keswick, SA |
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World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Wounded 2927, 9th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
2927 Harold George BERKSHIRE was born in Adelaide on 15 January 1898. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 10 October 1910 by his guardian Frederick G. Ball who was an assistant in a local chaff store. Harold seems to have been a state ward. He was named as one of five boys operating a stall selling jelly and custard at a fundraising fete run by Mount Gambier Public School and Mount Gambier High School at the end of the school year in 1910. He left school on 31 December 1910.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 15 February 1916 (18, farm labourer, single, Church of England) naming his sister, Miss Florence Gertrude Berkshire, c/o State Children’s Department, Adelaide, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Mooltan’ on 24 August 1916, and was hospitalised with influenza soon after arriving in Egypt in late September. He was attached to the 3rd Light Horse Training Regiment in late October 1916, attended several courses of instruction during December 1916 and February 1917, following which he was passed as a gunner. He was transferred to the 9th Light Horse on 24 March 1917 and promoted to Lance Corporal on 26 April. He served in Palestine until the end of the war, though his service was punctuated with frequent hospitalisations. He left Egypt for return to Australia on the ‘Dongala’ on 24 July 1919, disembarked on 23 August and was discharged on 15 October.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
Biography
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
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