LENNOX, Harold Marshall
| Service Number: | 2684 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Belmont, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Gordon Technical College, Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers Plot III, Row F, Grave No. 10 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Belmont Baptist Church Honor Roll, Belmont St. Stephen's Anglican Church Memorial Window 2, Waurn Ponds Shire of South Barwon Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2684, 29th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 14 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2684, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2684, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
A special carriage will be provided at South Geelong. At St. Stephen’s Church on Sunday evening a memorial service was held in honor of Private H. M. Lennox who fell in November, 1916. The Rev. G. W. Ratten delivered an address on “Sacrifice” asking all to put aside worldly ends of personal gain, prejudices of class, party feeling, small and paltry things, to dedicate their aims to the glory of God and the service of their country. Pte. Lennox was a member of the Sunday School Bible class, and gained the first prize, a Bible, not long before he enlisted. He had kept in close touch with his teacher and the Sunday School when at the Front. An enlarged photo was then unveiled, inscribed “Pte. H. M. Lennox, 29th Battalion, killed in action in France, November 2nd, 1916. For God, King and Country. Presented to St. Stephen’s by parishioners and friends.” The organist, Miss Grenfell, then played the “Dead March: in saul. This is the third soldier who has fallen from this church, the others being Sergt. C. R. Grenfell and Pte. E. W. Davis.”
Geelong Advertiser, Vic, Tuesday 19th June 1917, page 4.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
According to all of the statements in his Red Cross file Harold Lennox and four of his mates were sitting around a fire in the reserve trenches having tea when a shell exploded in their midst and killed all five men instantly.
Harold’s older brother, 997 Cpl. Robert Thomas Lennox 60th Battalion was killed in action at Fromelles on the 19 July 1916, aged 22.
The four men with Lennox, (Swanton, McKean, Burton and Lewis) were all Victorians from the 29th Battalion and all were buried in the Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers, France.