Harry Fowler POWELL

POWELL, Harry Fowler

    Service Number: 948
    Enlisted: 19 August 1914
    Last Rank: Gunner
    Last Unit: 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
    Born: Buln Buln, Victoria, Australia, 25 May 1892
    Home Town: Warragul, Baw Baw, Victoria
    Schooling: King's College, Warragul, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Bank clerk
    Died: Tuberculosis, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 4 October 1945, aged 53 years
    Cemetery: Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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    World War 1 Service

    19 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 948, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade
    20 Oct 1914: Involvement Gunner, 948, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
    20 Oct 1914: Embarked Gunner, 948, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne

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    Biography contributed by William Archer-Blackwood

    Harry Fowler Powell was born on 25 May 1892, the son of Harry and Jeannie nee Masterton Powell. He had five sisters: Nellie, Bessie, Amy, Mary and Jean. He was a student at Warragul State School and King's College.

    He worked as a clerk with the Savings Bank and married Winifred Linay Marwick on 26 August 1925, they had one son John.

    Harry was permanently incapitated with tuberculosis due to wounds received while serving in WWI and died on 4 October 1945 aged 53.

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