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HOLDEN, Joseph
| Service Number: | 14 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Blackburn, England, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Barman |
| Died: | natural causes, Blackburn, england, date not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 14, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 14, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 14, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 14, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
Joseph Holden, a 5-foot 6 soldier weighing 70 kg, was born in 1889 in Blackburn, England. Before enlisting Joseph Holden worked as a barman.
Joseph Holden enlisted on the 19th of August 1914 as a private at 25. His sister Alice who lived in Pennsylvania USA was his nominated next-of-kin on his Attestation Paper He was appointed to the 10th infantry battalion. Joseph embarked for Egypt on the HMAT Ascanius on the 20th of October 1914 after his training in Australia.
Holden was promoted, appointed and reverted from many positions, for example he went from private to corporal (temp) on the first of September 1915. He was reverted to lance corporal on 16 September 1915. On the 16 of October 1915, he was appointed corporal (temp). He was reverted to lance corporal on the 25th of November 1915, and then appointed to corporal(temp) on the 6th of December 1915. He was once again reverted back to lance corporal on the 10th of January 1916. On the 13th of April 1917 he was promoted to corporal. On the same day he was appointed sergeant (temp). On the 3rd of May 1917, he was reverted to corporal. .
Joseph returned home without any wounds. After the war he was awarded medals - ‘The star’ given to any soldier who enlisted from 1914-1915, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.
However, there is not a whole lot of information to what happened to Holden after the war. Though, he married on the 19/10/1918 to Maude Lawrence, 24, at Holy Trinity Church.
References:
“HOLDEN Joseph : Service Number - 14 : Place of Birth - Blackburn England : Place of Enlistment - Morphettville SA : Next of Kin - HOLDEN Alice.” National Archives of Australia, 1914, recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4760921&S=1. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.
Legend: The Anzac Spirit | the Australian War Memorial.” Www.awm.gov.au, Australian War Memorial, 30 Oct. 2019, www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/dawn/spirit#:~:text=The%20legend%20of%20Anzac%20was.
National Army Museum. “Weapons of the Western Front | National Army Museum.” National Army Museum, 2019, www.nam.ac.uk/explore/weapons-western-front.
Genge. “Training Australian Army Recruits during World War I.” Anzac Portal, 2023, anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/ww1/military-organisation/training#:~:text=Recruiting%20offices%20opened%20at%20army.
“World War 1.” Vwma.org.au, vwma.org.au/explore/conflicts/2.