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 |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Hangard Wood, France, 7 April 1918, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Granville War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
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
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