HENSTRIDGE, Harold St Clair
Service Number: | 3766 |
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Enlisted: | 14 August 1914 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Company |
Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 2 May 1887 |
Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
Schooling: | Flinders Street Public School, Hayward's College, and Way College, South Australia |
Occupation: | Adveritsing Executive |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: |
Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium Plot 1V, Row C, Grave 4 Headstone inscription reads: Leaving widow and three children his duty done, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide St John's Anglican Church Memorial Tablet, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Norwood St Bartholomew's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Snowtown & District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
14 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3766, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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2 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3766, 10th Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Adelaide | |
2 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3766, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
29 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Company, From 10th Battalion | |
Date unknown: | Involvement 3766, 3rd Machine Gun Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Henry Henstridge and Mary Anne Henstridge nee Sherwood of Adelaide, SA. Brother of Evelyn Maria Henstridge, Edith Mary Henstridge, Osborne Sherwood Henstridge, Jessie Isabelle Henstridge, Alfred Charles Henstridge, Ivy Muriel Henstridge and Leslie Francis Henstridge
Husband of Violet Phoebe Constance Henstridge nee Fiveash of Richmond Road, Westbourne Park, SA formerly of 28 Glyde Street, Norwood,SA. Harold and Violet were married on 25 October 1909 in St John Church, Adelaide
Father of Kevin Fiveash Henstridge, Bobbie Karen Esme Henstridge and Betty Romola Isabel Henstridge
Apprenticed to Vardon & Pritchard of Adelaide, SA
Medals: 191-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal