SAMBROOK, Horace Claude
| Service Number: | 6397 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 October 1916, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 9 July 1886 |
| Home Town: | Granville, Parramatta, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer, Boilermaker's Helper with the Railways. |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Hangard Wood, France, 7 April 1918, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Remembered with Honour on the Villers-Bretoneux Memorial. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Granville War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6397, 19th Infantry Battalion, Sydney | |
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| 11 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6397, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6397, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 7 Apr 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6397, 19th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Horace Claude SAMBROOK was born in Bathurst, New South Wales on 9th July, 1886
His mother was Margaret Caroline Mary SAMBROOK who married a John DOWNIE at St Pauls Church in Redfern on 24th October, 1896 - his father was unknown on his birth certificate
He married Lilian Jane TATTERSELL in Sydney in 1911 - 3 children, Alfred, James & George
He enlisted in Sydney on 12th October, 1916 & embarked with the 19th Infantry Battalion, 18th reinforcements from Sydney on the HMAT Suevic on 11th November, 1916
Horace was Killed in Action at Hangard Wood in France on 7th April, 1918 - no known grave - his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Villers Bretonneux Memorial
IN MEMORY
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Horace Claude SAMBROOK (Service Number 6397) was born in Bathurst on 9th July 1886. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a boilermaker’s helper at the Eveleigh workshops in May 1913.
In October 1916 he was living at Granville when he was released from duty at the workshops to join the AIF in Sydney.
He was allotted to the 18th Reinforcements of the 19th Battalion. He embarked from Sydney in November 1916. He was disembarked, sick with measles, in Cape Town in mid-December. On 24th January 1917 he re-embarked at Cape Town and was landed in England on 3rd March. In November 1917, after training, he was sent to France, and was ‘taken on strength’ by his Battalion early in December.
In January 1918 he was sent to the Field Ambulance and then to a Dressing Station (the next step towards hospital) with fever of unknown origin but returned to his unit after only a few days.
On 7th April 1918 he was posted missing in action, and a Court of Enquiry held in September determined that he had been killed in action (on the date he was posted missing) at Hangard Wood, near Villers-Bretonneux. He has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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