MCCALLUM, Harold Henry
| Service Number: | 881 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 105th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery |
| Born: | Tantanoola South Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Tantanoola, Wattle Range, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Tantanoola Primary School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Rabbit trapper, Painter, Soldier, Postmaster |
| Died: | Millicent, South Australia, 9 October 1975, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Tantanoola Cemetery, S.A. Plot 107 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 881, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
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| 31 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 881, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Sep 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 881, 27th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Returned to Egypt with the remainder of the 27th Battalion | |
| 16 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 105th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery | |
| 3 Jan 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 881, 105th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 881 |
Harold Henry McCallum
When Harold Henry MCCALLUM was born on 9 June 1891 in Tantanoola, South Australia, his father, Archibald, was 43 and his mother, Alice, was 26. He married Clara Bertha CHILDS on 9 March 1926 in South Australia. They had three children during their marriage. He died on 9 October 1975 in Millicent, South Australia, at the age of 84, and was buried in his hometown.
Attended Tantanoola School until 12 years of age when he began as a farm hand on the farm of Mr Ted Keilly. In 1904 began as a bakery delivery boy aged 13 years. Prior to WWI Harold had many jobs including trapping rabbits, fencing, cutting wood, digging potatoes. Enlisted in Australian Army in 1915 and posted to Egypt and then Gallipoli with the 27th Battalion fighting the Turks. After the evacuation at Gallipoli returned to Egypt and then to France where he joined his brother Clarence in 105 Howitzer battery fighting the Germans. In 1917 was wounded by a german bomb and spent six months in Newbury Hospital in England.
Returned to Australia in 1918 and discharged. Spent several years shearing before he married Clara. After marriage, he and Clara took over the Tantanoola Post Office which they kept until 1948. Then held several jobs working for Quarries Ltd at Hanging Rock and as a painter at Cellulose near Millicent. Retired aged 65 years moving eventually to Boandik Lodge in Mt Gambier.
Submitted 25 April 2022 by Gerry Nicholson
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