PASHEN, Horace Joseph Coxen
| Service Numbers: | 568, R568 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 December 1914, Place of Enlistment, Brisbane, Queensland. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 14th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Bulimba, Queensland, Australia, 15 December 1891 |
| Home Town: | Bulimba, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Warehouse Assistant |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland , Australia, 7 June 1943, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Balmoral Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 568, 4th Pioneer Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Brisbane, Queensland. | |
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| 19 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 568, 3rd Field Ambulance, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 19 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 568, 3rd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, R568, 4th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Ayrshire, Sydney | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, R568, 4th Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: '' | |
| 16 May 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, Acting Corporal | |
| 10 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, Acting Sergeant | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, 14th Field Company Engineers |
Balmoral Cemetery Headstones for Veterans
Yesterday, Anzac Day 2022, Pauline Winter (nee Pashen)granddaughter of WW1 veteran Horace Joseph Coxen and Mary Pauline (nee Tyler) Pashen visited their grave at Balmoral cemetery. Pauline was visiting from the Central Coast of NSW. This was the first time she had, in person seen the new headstone. As their grave lay unmarked till 2021.
Sadly Pauline never meet her grandparents as they both passed away in the 1940s. Pauline and FoBC worked together with the wording on the plaque. A lasting physical tribute to a previously unmarked WW1 veterans grave at Balmoral Cemetery.
FOBC successfully applied through the Federal Government grant for unmarked WW1 graves, to mark this previously unmarked grave.
Thanks to John & Katrina Trevethan for volunteering & suppling materials to erect this headstone and several others in Balmoral cemetery over the last 2 years. Sadly this Federal Government funding ceased in June 2021.
Submitted 27 April 2022 by Lynette Turner
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