GILMOUR, Harold James
| Service Number: | 2646 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 September 1915, 2 years senior cadets, 3 months 16th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Anzac Provost Corps |
| Born: | Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, 13 December 1896 |
| Home Town: | Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Pitt Town, Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, 12 March 1966, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-35. 23. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton War Memorial, Wallsend Soldier's Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2646, 7th Light Horse Regiment, 2 years senior cadets, 3 months 16th Infantry | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 2646, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 2646, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 2 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Anzac Provost Corps | |
| 24 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 2646, Anzac Provost Corps , 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
56 years ago today, on the 15th March 1966, 2nd Corporal Harold James Gilmour, ANZAC Provost Police Corps (Reg No-2646), labourer from Pitt Town, Wallsend, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 69. CATHOLIC 2-35. 23.
Born at Wallsend, New South Wales on the 13th December 1896 to Archibald (died 1900) and Dinah Gilmour (WRIGHT, died 1943, Wallsend, N.S.W.; husband of Mildred Mary Gilmour nee Burns (married 1920, Waratah, N.S.W., died 1940, sleeping here), Harold enlisted September 1915 with the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 16.6.1916 (mumps).
Harold returned home September 1919, being discharged on the 24th October 1919.
Mr. Gilmour’s name has been inscribed on the Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 24th May 1919, 332 names originally inscribed, 371 names now inscribed, 75 Fallen), Wallsend Municipal & District Roll of Honor, Federal Park Wallsend War Memorial, Wallsend Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows', Prince of Wales Lodge Honour Roll and the Wallsend & Plattsburg Miners Home Branch (G.U.O.O.F.) Honour Roll.
There is no indication inscribed on Harold’s headstone plaque of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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