BOND, Horace
| Service Number: | 1284 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 20th Army Service Corps |
| Born: | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 18 April 1884 |
| Home Town: | Branxton, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia , 17 August 1954, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-43. 123. |
| Memorials: | Branxton Memorial Rotunda |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1284, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 13 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1284, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 13 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1284, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 4 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1284, 20th Army Service Corps, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
70 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 18th August 1954, Driver Horace Owen Bond, 20th Australian Army Service Corps, 3rd Australian Divisional Train (Reg No-1284), labourer from Dalwood, Branxton, New South Wales and 8 Merewether Street, Cardiff, N.S.W., father or three (Marie, Roy & Peter), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 70. CATHOLIC 2-43. 123.
Born at Balmain, New South Wales on the 5th April 1884 to William Denis and Ellen Bond; husband of Beatrice Mercy Bond nee Cooper, married 1921, Auburn, N.S.W., died 2.11.1972, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 79, sleeping here, Horace enlisted on the 14th March 1916 with the 36th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 13th May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 6.2.1917 (scabies), 12.2.1917 (impetigo), 27.2.1918 (scabies), 30.4.1919 (septic arm).
On leave to Paris from 17.12.1917 to 1.1.1918 and 31.12.1918 to 14.1.1919.
On leave to England from 28.9.1918 to 7.10.1918 and 29.12.1918 to 16.1.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 4.7.1919.
Horace arrived home on the 19th August 1919, being discharged on the 4th October 1919.
Mr. Bond’s name has been inscribed on the Branxton Soldiers' Memorial. Name not inscribed on the Greta & Branxton Municipal Roll of Honor.
I have placed poppies at Horace’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
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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