LOUIS, Harold Ethelbert
| Service Number: | 1740 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Condong, New South Wales, Australia, 5 September 1892 |
| Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Horse breaker |
| Died: | 9 August 1969, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-92. 36. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1740, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1740, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1740, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Sydney | |
| 16 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1740, 20th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
56 years ago today, on the 11th August 1969, Temporary Corporal Harold Ethelbert Louis, 1st Australian Convalescent Depot (Reg No-1740), horse breaker from 49 Baltic Street, Newtown, New South Wales and Newcastle?, N.S.W., father of four, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 77. CATHOLIC 3-92. 36.
Born at Condong (Tweed River), New South Wales on the 5th September 1892 to Mark Austin, died 2.1.1922, Woollahra, N.S.W., age 64, buried at Rookwood General Cemetery, from Riddell Street, Woollahra, New South Wales, and Mary Ann Louis nee Waugh, died 24.10.1893, Murwillumbah, N.S.W., age 31, mother of 6?, sleeping at Murwillumbah Old Cemetery; husband of Dorothy Mary Louis nee Hatton, married 1921, Murwillumbah, N.S.W., died 14.1.1976, Bilpin, N.S.W., age 75, sleeping at Richmond Lawn Cemetery, N.S.W., Harry enlisted on the 28th May 1915 with the 20th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wes, on board HMAT A61 Kanowna on the 19th June 1915.
Wounded in action - 3.8.1916 (GSW throat, severe), 6.10.1917 (GSW right hand).
Granted furlough from 20.10.1916 to 2.11.1916 and 1.8.1918 to 18.8.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 7.2.1919.
Harry arrived home on the 24th March 1919, being discharged on the 16th June 1919.
Received all 3 War Medals.
Mr. Louis’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Harry’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Older brother Mark James Louis, born 31.1.1884, Murwillumbah (Tweed River), N.S.W., single seaman from Bundaberg, Queensland, enlisted 29.7.1918, 7th (QLD) Reinforcements, Reg No-58359, unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board SS Wyreema on the 14th October 1918, troopship recalled, disembarked 20.12.1918, died 11.6.1956, Lidcombe, N.S.W., age 72, laid to rest at Liverpool Cemetery and Crematorium, N.S.W., not officially commemorated.
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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