NORMAN, Lionel Dewhurst
| Service Number: | 175 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 12 January 1878 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electrician |
| Died: | Wentworth Convalescent Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, 23 February 1967, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Norwood Football Club War Veterans |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 175, 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Born in Adelaide on 12 January 1878, a few weeks before the emergence of the Norwood Football Club, Lionel was the eldest of seven children of dentist Herbert Hayes Norman and his wife Evangeline, née Dewhirst. Lionel lived at Rockford House, North Terrace.
In 1900, Lionel was an applicant for homestead selection in Parkes, NSW. He next enlisted as a trooper in the 3rd NSW Imperial Bushmen, a unit which served in the Boer War between May 1901 and May 1902 in east and later west Transvaal.
Lionel married Sarah Steritt in Victoria in 1906 but she died tragically at her mother’s residence, Gordons, Victoria, in 1911. Lionel took a second wife, Dorothy Flavel, in 1914 and they had a son, Norman Flavel Norman. Lionel later worked as an electrician in NSW. He was 89 when he died at the Wentworth Convalescent Hospital, Randwick, on 23 February 1967
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