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Harold Sidney HOLLOWAY

Regimental number14551
Date of birth2 June 1884
Place of birthRedfern, Sydney, New South Wales
SchoolSydney Grammar School, Sydney, New South Wales
Other trainingBank Officer
ReligionMethodist
OccupationClerk
AddressArtarmon, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation31
Next of kinSister, Miss Inez Holloway, Ellerslie, Jersey Road, Artarmon, New South Wales
Enlistment date14 February 1916
Rank on enlistmentSapper
Unit nameJuly 1916 Reinforcements
AWM Embarkation Roll number14/42/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A44 Vestalia on 11 July 1916
Rank from Nominal RollSapper
Unit from Nominal Roll13th Field Company Engineers
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularJoined the Bank of New South Wales, Head Office, Sydney, 20 December 1901; at time of enlistment was in the Share Department.
FateKilled in Action 11 July 1918
Place of death or woundingHamel, France
Age at death34
Place of burialVillers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery (Plot VIII, Row A, Grave No. 7), Fouilloy, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
24
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Sidney James and Sara HOLLOWAY
Family/military connectionsBrother: 2nd Lieutenant Rupert Arthur HOLLOWAY, 1st Pioneer Bn, discharged in England, 26 January 1920.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Killed by a minenwerfer shell, Hamel, 11 July 1918.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Sources'Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour' (Sydney, 1921), p. 185.

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