CANTRELL, Henry Frederick
| Service Number: | 6898 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 May 1917, Brisbane, Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 6 February 1890 |
| Home Town: | East Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Coorparoo State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Wansbeck Valley Road, Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia, 15 October 1951, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-185. 47. |
| Memorials: | Coorparoo State School Honour Roll, East Brisbane War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 May 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6898, 26th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane, Qld. | |
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| 14 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 6898, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 6898, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 23 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6898, 4th Australian Division Traffic Detachment Discharged medically unfit, 1st MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Frederick Henry CANTRELL and Frances Sophia nee WOODWARD of Burlington Street, East Brisbane, Qld.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
73 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 17th October 1951, Private Henry Frederick Cantrell, 4th Australian Division Traffic Detachment (Reg No-6898), boilermaker from Burlington Street, East Brisbane, Queensland and Wansbeck Valley Road, Cardiff, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 62. ANGLICAN 3-185. 47.
Born at Brisbane, Queensland on the 6th February 1890 to Frederick Henry, died 18.10.1939, Brisbane, Queensland, age 90, no inscription on headstone, and Frances Sophia Jane Cantrell nee Woodward, died 24.7.1921, Brisbane, Queensland, age 64; husband of Eileen Cantrell nee Manwaring, married 1921, Murrumburrah, N.S.W., remarried 1953 to John Finley Cantrell, Molong, N.S.W., died 19.10.1994, Cardiff, N.S.W., age 91, Henry enlisted on the 17th May 1917 with the 26th & 15th Battalions at Brisbane, Queensland.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 14th June 1917.
Admitted to hospital 14.7.1918 (bronchitis, severe).
Invalided to England 25.7.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 3.5.1919.
Henry arrived home on the 21st June 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 23rd July 1919.
Mr. Cantrell’s name has been inscribed on the Coorparoo State School Honour Roll, East Brisbane War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Henry’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died 15/10/1951. Imp War Graves List.
Officially commemorated 29.1.1952 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/commemsoawg/commemoration/viewCommemoration.html?commemorationId=NjQ4Nzk4.
Younger brother Charles Francis, born 3.7.1895, East Brisbane, Queensland, clerk from Burlington Street, East Brisbane, Queensland, enlisted 3.8.1915, 9th Battalion, Reg No-3311, KIA 4.9.1916, Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, France, age 21, 49th Battalion, resting at Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France. Plot XXV Row H Grave 9, memorialised at parent's gravesite -
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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