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HEHIR, Horace Edward

Service Number:	6744
Enlisted:	29 July 1916, Enlisted Launceston Tasmania allocated to 22nd reinforcement’s 12th Battalion at Claremont Camp Tasmania on 28th September 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Launceston State School,Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Printer Daily Telegraph Newspapers
Died:	War related injuries , Newport, Victoria, Australia, 8 May 1953, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

29 Jul 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6744, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted Launceston Tasmania allocated to 22nd reinforcement’s 12th Battalion at Claremont Camp Tasmania on 28th September 1916
30 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 6744, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Palermo embarkation_ship_number: A56 public_note: ''
30 Sep 1916:	Embarked Private, 6744, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Palermo, Melbourne
22 Nov 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Training Battalion , Taken on Strength of 3rd Training Battalion in the UK from reinforcement’s Australia
2 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 12th Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength of the Battalion in the field France
15 Apr 1917:	Imprisoned Bullecourt (First), Captured at Langicourt interned Limburg Germany
30 Dec 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 12th Infantry Battalion, Repatriation from Germany arrive UK 30th December 1918 for treatment and convalescence
1 Apr 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6744, 12th Infantry Battalion, RTA 6MD Tasmania termination Period of Enlistment on HT Shropshire for medical review
25 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6744, 12th Infantry Battalion, Discharged 6MD Hobart Tasmania Medically Unfit

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Biography contributed by Pam Hamilton

Resided Agg Street Newport on 15 May 1953