OWEN, Hugh
| Service Number: | 2199 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 June 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Lidcombe, Auburn, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Illness, France, 24 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Mont Huon Military Cemetery, le Treport, France Plot 1V, Row O, Grave 11A Rev. H.H.K. Greene officiated, Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, Haute-Normandie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2199, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 30 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2199, 20th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2199, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 2 Aug 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2199, 20th Infantry Battalion, Severe shell wounds to the back | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2199, Third Ypres, Shell wounds to the back (fractured), pelvis and sacrum |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Husband of Maud Elizabeth Owen of Fifth Avenue, Hyde Park, Liidcombe, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Private H. Owen, of the 20th Battalion, has been officially reported having died of gas gangrene, gunshot wound in the back, fractured pelvis, and other injuries in the 2nd Canadian Hospital, France, on 24th September. He was 24 years of age, and was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Owen, of Skarratt-street, Auburn., His young wife resides with her mother, Mrs. Boserio, in 5th Avenue, Hyde Park, Lidcombe, with whom there is much sympathy in her bereavement.
Private Owen left New South Wales for the front on 6th September, 1915, and was at Gallipoli only a short while before the evacuation. His battalion was the last to leave the Peninsula. He afterwards went to France, and, after being five months in the trenches was badly wounded in the big push on tho Somme. He, however, made a. good recovery and returned to the firing line, but after four or five weeks' fighting ho received his fatal wounds. He was a native of Lithgow, and had lived in Auburn three years when he donned the King's uniform. Prior to enlisting he worked in the blacksmith's shop at the Clyde Engineering Co.'s works.
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