HARWOOD, Cyril Conwell
| Service Number: | 468 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Salvage Company |
| Born: | Invermay, Tasmania, Australia, 7 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Yarraville, Victoria, Australia, 26 March 1959, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Footscray Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 468, 39th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 468, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 27 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 468, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 21 Jan 1917: | Transferred Private, 3rd Divisional Salvage Company | |
| 10 Jun 1917: | Wounded Private, 468, 3rd Divisional Salvage Company, Battle of Messines, France - Gassed | |
| 17 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 468, 3rd Divisional Salvage Company, per Plassy | |
| 19 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 468, 3rd Divisional Salvage Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Cyril was the tenth of eleven children of William Langdon Harwood (born 1849 in Warwickshire, England) and Felicia Charlotte Conwell (born 1856 in Madras, India). William and Felicia married in 1876 in Madras, India where their first child was born. The family immigrated to Melbourne, Victoria in 1878 before relocating to Tasmania where William was awarded a Land Grant at Hobart in 1885. William was a Wireman (worked with electrical wireing) and the family lived at Invermay, Launceston and Queenstown in Tasmania before moving to Melbourne in Victoria in the 1920s.
In January 1916 Cyril was a Labourer in Melbourne, Victoria when he enlisted with the AIF as a Private (Service No:468), serving with 39th Infantry Battalion before transferring to 3rd Divisional Salvage in January 1917. and in June 1917 was Gassed at the Battle of Messines. Cyril fought in the Battles of Messines and Broodeseinde, on the Somme, and later at Amiens, Hamel, Mont Saint Quentin and the Hindenberg Line (https;//www.adf/edu/au/OrderOfBattle/3rdDivision.html). Brothers-in-Law Arthur Montgomery (Service No:355) and Arthur Robert Allen (Service No:3001) also served in WWI.
Following his Discharge in June 1919, Cyril returned to Melbourne, Victoria and was working as a Labourer when he married Helena (Lena) Mary Ann Campbell (nee Pianta, born 1895 in Yarravale, Melbourne) in 1924 at Fitzroy in Melbourne, Victoria. Lena was a Shop Assistant and Map Maker. Cyril and Lena settled in Melbourne, where Lena died in 1954 and Cyril in 1959.