PRICE, Harold
| Service Number: | 47 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Prior to re-allocation, was allocated to Company "E", 8th Infantry Battalion. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Koonwarra, Victoria, Australia, 16 December 1894 |
| Home Town: | Moe, Latrobe, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Outtrim No.3229, Trafalgar No.2185 and Moe State Schools, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Postal Assistant |
| Died: | Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 22 August 1973, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Upper Yarra Public Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Signaller, 47, 8th Infantry Battalion, Prior to re-allocation, was allocated to Company "E", 8th Infantry Battalion. | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 47, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Linda Neate
Wounded 17 May 1915 - Fractured skull by shell explosion - fracture of right temporal bone caused by a bomb
Embarkation - 24 Jun 1916 - Embarked Plymouth, England for Australia, per HMAT Euripides, mastoiditis [bacterial infection that affects the mastoid bone behind the ear]. 8 August, 1916 Berthed Melbourne
Embarkation - 11 May 1917 - 1876 Corporal 16th Light Railway Operating Company - Formerly known as 5th Railway Section AROD [Australian Railways Operations Depot] Embarked Melbourne per HMAT A11 Ascanius, proceeded via Fremantle, Mauritius, Durban, Capetown and Sierra Leone to Devonport, England.
Promotion to Sergeant 19 Jul 1917 - 16th Light Railway Operating Company
Involvement Broodseinde Ridge 4 Oct 1917 - 1876 Sergeant 16th Light Railway Operating Company
Promotion to Warrant Officer Class 1876, 16th Light Railway Operating Company 11 Oct 1917
Embarkation 10 Dec 1918- Warrant Officer Class 1876 16th Light Railway Operating Company Per S.S.Somali, chronic suppuration otitis media. 19 February, 1919 berthed Melbourne.
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