Harold Patrick BARNS

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BARNS, Harold Patrick

Service Number:	2592
Enlisted:	7 March 1915, 4 years Senior Cadets
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	20th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, 9 March 1897
Home Town:	Westmead, Parramatta, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Printer Westmead Boys' Home, New South Wales, Australia
Died:	1957, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-93. 124.
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World War 1 Service

7 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2592, 20th Infantry Battalion, 4 years Senior Cadets
2 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 2592, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
2 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 2592, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
27 Jan 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2592, 20th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

56 years ago today, on the 19th December 1967, Private Harold Patrick Burns, 20th Battalion (Reg No-2592), printer from the Westmead Boys' Home, New South Wales and Hamilton?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 70. CATHOLIC 3-93. 124.

Born at Narrabri, New South Wales on the 9th March 1897 to Walter and Catherine Burns; husband of Florence Emily Burns nee Burr or Hopkins (married at the Register Office, Saint Pancras, United Kingdom, 24.4.1919, died 25.9.1966, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 69, sleeping at ANGLICAN 3-218. 56), Harry enlisted on the 7th March 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A14 Euripides on the 2nd November 1915.

Wounded in action - 1.6.1916 (SW?).

Harry returned home on the 8th November 1919 with wife Florence, being discharged on the 27th January 1920.

Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.

I have not located Mr. Burns’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at William’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

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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