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FOX, Horace Richard
| Service Number: | 1526 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 December 1914, at Oaklands |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rosewater, South Australia, Australia, September 1890 |
| Home Town: | Ovingham, Charles Sturt, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Brompton Public School |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Memorials: | Renown Park Brompton School Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1526, 10th Infantry Battalion, at Oaklands | |
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| 19 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1526, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1526, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 1526, 50th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
Horace Richard Fox was a solider during the First World War. He was born in Rosewater, South Australia and lived on Gibson Street, Ovingham, South Australia. He was single and worked as a store man. His closest living blood relative was his sister Mrs. Martha Shurah, however, during the war he was married to Mrs. Ruth Fox. Richard Horace Fox’s enlistment date was 26 November 1914 and he enlisted as a private. His unit name was ‘10th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement’. He embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic in February 1915 at the age of 24.
During the War:
Horace Richard Fox was a private at the start of the war and ended as a private when he was done. He arrived on Gallipoli on 5 May 1915 and served until the evacuation. When the AIF returned to Egypt he was transferred to the 50th Battalion in February 1916 and stayed with that unit until the end of the war.
On the 3rd of Feburary 1917 Horace Richard Fox was hospitalised with scabies. He was then wounded in action on the 22nd of August 1917. He was reported to have a gunshot wound to his left knee which caused a fractured femur. Horace Richard Fox was sent to England with this wound on the 28th of September 1917.
Horace Richard Fox had his next of kin changed to Mrs. Ruth Fox. Her postal address is “Serverals House” Hospital at Newmarket in Suffolk. Apparently Serverals House hospital was a hospital that was active during WWI for soldiers that were wounded. As Horace Richard Fox had a bullet wound to his left knee and a fractured femur, he must have gone to this hospital and met Ruth and fallen in love.
Horace Richard Fox was classified unfit for further service and was returned home. He arrived at Australia and was discharged from the AIF on the 14th of June 1918. As his knee, a major joint was damaged by a bullet he must have not been able to walk or just wasn’t able to run, jump fast enough for war. He must have been sent back home where he would have been looked after by his wife, friends and family.
No further details are known of his postwar life.