Harold Thomas WARD

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WARD, Harold Thomas

Service Numbers:	200, 200A, NX18210
Enlisted:	21 December 1915, Rifle club
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Australian Corps Headquarters Signal Company
Born:	Botany, New South Wales, Australia, 12 November 1900
Home Town:	Islington, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wheeler, Lorry driver, Plate layer
Died:	Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 13 September 1962, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-87. 142.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

21 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 200, 36th Infantry Battalion, Rifle club
12 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 200A, Australian Corps Headquarters Signal Company, 2nd MD

World War 2 Service

29 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX18210

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

61 years ago today, on the 14th September 1962, Sapper Harold Thomas Ward, Australian Corps Signal Company (Reg No-200A), wheeler and lorry driver and plate layer from Togo Street, Long Bay, New South Wales and 134 Fern Street, Islington, N.S.W. and 66 Fern Street, Islington, N.S.W. (1941), father of three (2 sons, George and Charles, 1 daughter, Mrs. Ted Sullivan), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 64. CATHOLIC 3-87. 142.

Born at Botany, New South Wales on the 12th November 1897 as Thomas H to Lawrence and Janet May Ward nee Smith; husband of Constance Pearl Ward nee Backhouse (married 29.3.1916, Wickham, N.S.W., died 15.8.1940, age 42, ANGLICAN 1-26. 121) of 27 Harrison Street, Smedmore, New South Wales and 46 McMichael Street, Maryville, N.S.W. and 134 Fern Street, Islington, N.S.W., Harry enlisted on the 21st December 1915 with the 36th and 53rd Battalions at Sydney, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 13th May 1916.

Admitted to hospital 19.4.1917 (abrasion to foot), 17.5.1917 (appendicitis), 15.8.1917 (appendicitis), 30.9.1917 (appendicitis), 24.12.1917 (not stated), 20.2.1918 (not stated), 6.6.1918 (synovitis left knee).
Harry was invalided home on the 20th February 1919, being discharged on the 12th April 1919.

Mr. Ward’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies at Harry’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Also served 2nd A.I.F. (enlisted 29.5.1940, Paddington, N.S.W., NX18210, 2/1st Pioneer Battalion, discharged medically unfit 26.5.1941).
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...

Younger brother Frederick John (born 24.1.1900, Botany, New South Wales, labourer from Wilson Street, Botany, New South Wales, enlisted 10.10.1917, 4th Battalion, Reg No-7852, RTA 10.9.1919, 35th Battalion, service record states Died after Discharge 23.5.1950, age 50, Botany Cemetery (Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park)

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

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