HALSTEAD, Harold
| Service Numbers: | 191, N467395 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Birkdale, Lancashire, England, 9 August 1889 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Iron Dresser |
| Died: | Illness, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 5 July 1946, aged 56 years |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium) Cremated |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 191 | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 191, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 191, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 8 May 1915: | Wounded Private, 191, ANZAC / Gallipoli, gunshot wound to shoulder |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Mar 1943: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Sergeant, N467395 | |
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| 6 May 1943: | Enlisted N467395, Rank of Lance Sergeant 32 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cora Jones
Harold left England in May 1910 to travel to Australia on the Ship the Suevic.
It is uncertain where Harold disembarked when he arrived in Australia, but it is thought he may have landed in Melbourne.
When he enlisted in WW1, he was living at Breese Street, Brunswick and working at the Lux iron foundry in Brunswick.
Harold returned to Australia in 1916 and applied for an Indulgence Passage to return to England in 1916, but this was refused by the State War Council per a letter dated 10 November 1916. In 1918, Harold married a war widow with 2 children.
Harold was granted a soldier settlers block at Kulwin, near Manangatang, and although he and his family moved to Kulwin, they eventually forfeited the block and at some stage returned to Melbourne, where Harold became a Real Estate Agent. He and his wife spent some time living in Tasmania and when his marriage ended, his wife returned to Victoria and Harold lived in Newcastle NSW, where he died of illness at the age of 56.
It is now known that Harold was the biological father of a child born in 1912, this has been proved by research and DNA testing of other family members. Harold had no other known biological children.