ARMISTEAD, Horace Joseph
| Service Number: | 1200 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Deans Marsh via Boonah, Victoria, Australia, 18 August 1895 |
| Home Town: | Boonah, Surf Coast, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Colac, Victoria, Australia, 19 May 1962, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Colac General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Bambra Roll of Honor, Deans Marsh District Roll of Honor, Lorne School Honor Roll, Lorne School Roll of Honor Book, Lorne War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1200, 13th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 27 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1200, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1200, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1200, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 12 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 22nd Machine Gun Company | |
| 15 Jan 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1200, 22nd Machine Gun Company, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT City of Exeter |
Vietnam War Service
| 24 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1200, 22nd Machine Gun Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Horace Joseph Armistead (Service No:1200) enlisted in the AIF on 9 June 1915 and was attached to 13th Light Horse Regiment 6th Reinforcement (the Regiment's nick name was 'Devil's Own Regiment') on 27 October 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Egypt on board HMAT A38 Ulysses. Hospitalised in Heliopolis with Influenza, Private Armistead embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles on 20 March 1916, and fought in France (mustered as Driver) with 5th Field Artillery Brigade and 22nd Machine Gun Coy. Private Armistead embarked from England for Melbourne on 15 January 1919 on board HT City of Exeter, and was attached to 22nd Machine Gun Coy at Discharge on 24 April 1919.
Horace was born in Deans Marsh via Boonah, Victoria in 1895, seventh of eight children of John Armistead (b1855 in Geelong, Victoria) and Harriet Elizabeth Mousley (b1857 in Geelong, Victoria). John and Harriet married in 1883 in Bambra, Victoria and settled in the Winchelsea region (Boonah, Deans Marsh, Birregurra) where they raised their family and John was a Bullock Driver and Farmer. Harriet died in 1907, and John in July 1919 ('self inflicted gun shot: Inquest) - his two youngest sons (Horace and Bill), not long returned from WWI, discovered his body.
Horace worked as a Labourer in Boonah via Birregurrah before enlisting in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge, Horace returned to Boonah where, until 1922, he listed his occupation as 'Returned Soldier'. In 1921 at 'The Wattles' in Anglesea, Horace married Dorothy Evans (b1902 at Anglesea (Mt Dundee) Victoria). In 1925, under the Returned Soldiers' Settlement Act 1917, Horace and Dorothy purchased a Farm at Mt Violet via Woorndoo, where they settled and raised their family and Horace was a Farmer. In the mid 1930s the family settled at Bungador via Cobden, where Horace was a Farmer until the late 1950s, when he and Dorothy retired to Colac. Horace died in 1962 and Dorothy in 1966.
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