SLACK, Harold Stanley
| Service Number: | 2388 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 May 1916, 1 year senior Cadets, 3 years 16th infantry |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 4 September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Waratah Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 15 October 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Nine Elms British Cemetery Plot IV, Row C, Grave 8 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Waratah Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 14 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2388, 36th Infantry Battalion, 1 year senior Cadets, 3 years 16th infantry | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2388, 36th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2388, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 15 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2388, 36th Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele, GSW right thigh, fractured, left leg, left arm & hand DoW 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station | |
| 15 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 36th Infantry Battalion, Killed in action |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Fell during The Great War, memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
105 years ago today, on the 15th October 1917, Private Harold Stanley Slack, 36th Battalion (Reg No-2388), bootmaker or labourer from Christo Road, Georgetown (Waratah), New South Wales, Died of Wounds at the 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, France, during the 1st Battle of Passchendaele, Passchendaele Campaign, age 23.
Note – service record states date of death 14th October 1917, newspaper Roll of Honour (1917 & 1918) states 14th October 1917, memorial inscription on family headstone at Sandgate Cemetery 14th October 1917, Roll of Honour circular states 15th October 1917, headstone inscription 15th October 1917.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 4th September 1894 (BDM Register states father unknown) to John Martin Schuck, stepfather (died 22.7.1945) of 30 Carrington Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. and Nile Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. and Turner Street, Georgetown, N.S.W., and Adelaide Alice Schuck nee Slack (married 1905, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 19.7.1919) of Margaret Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., Harold enlisted May 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 15.10.1917 (GSW right thigh, fractured, GSW left leg, left arm & hand).
Harold is resting at Nine Elms British Cemetery, Belgium. Plot IV Row C Grave 8.
Mr. Slack’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah Park Memorial Gates (photos, unveiled on the 23rd February 1921, 68 names originally inscribed, 70 names now inscribed of the Fallen, located at the corner of Station and Platt Streets, Waratah. N.S.W.), Mayfield-Waratah School of Arts Roll of Honour, Book of Gold and the Waratah-St Philip's Anglican Church Roll of Honour (as Harold Schuck). Name should have been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name does not appear to be inscribed on the Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour.
The family headstone tells us of the loss of their son during The Great War. ANGLICAN 1-05. 21.
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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