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Harold Howard  Spang

Name on Board HH Spang
Name on Service
Records
Harold Howard   Spang
Enlistment Age 27
Occupation Miner
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Peter Spang
Address Mansfield, Vic
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 29/09/1914
Service No. 1427
Enlistment Place Woomalang, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 22/12/1914
Embarkation Ship HMAT Berrima A35
Unit on Embarkation 16th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 18/10/1917
Unit on Death 16th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Corporal
Cause of Death Died from accidental burns and wounds while POW
Place of Wounding/
Death
Prisoner of War at Valenciennes, France
Cemetery or Memorial St Roch Communal Cemetery, Valenciennes, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Additional Information Harold Spang sailed with the Second Convoy of 19 ships which departed from Albany, Western Australia on 31 December 1914.
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