VENABLES, Harold
| Service Numbers: | 51, R/15384 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Born: | Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Ravenswood, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Died of Illness, Winchester, England, 22 February 1919 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 51, 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
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World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1915: | Enlisted British Forces (All Conflicts), R/15384 , King's Royal Rifle Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Harold John Venables was born at Murrurundi in Queensland during 1876. His mother died in 1878 when he was 2 years of age. Harold embarked with the 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry for the Boer War on 20 January 1900 at 21 years of age. He lived in South Africa and Rhodesia, gold mining, for many years, and was engaged in active service during the German South West Africa rising. At the start of the Great War, he travelled to England and enlisted during August 1915. He served for many years in France and Salonica with the King's Royal Rifle Corps and in late 1918 contracted fever and was evacuated to Malta, then England. He died of pneumatic influenza in England on the 22 February 1919 at 43 years of age. R/15384 Rifleman H.J. Venables is buried in England and remembered on the Commonwealth War Graves.
His half-brother, their father remarried, 2268 Pte. George Frank Venables, M.M. 47th Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Dernancourt on the 5 April, 1918. Age 25.
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