Hardwick, Herbert Charles
SURNAME
Hardwick
NAME
Herbert Charles
PLACE OF BIRTH
Southend-on-Sea, Essex
OCCUPATION
Labourer
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Mowbray
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
7-02-15
NEXT OF KIN
William Hardwick, Lindrum St, Toowoomba. Mother moved to Wynnun Sands, Brisbane.
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Signed up at Mowbray by Jas Reynolds, JP. Medical signed by V S Collins. Brother F W Hardwick lived in Miallo.
REGIMENT 1
5th Light Horse
REGIMENT 2
2nd Light Horse
RANK
Lance Corp / Sergeant
CAMPAIGN 1
Middle East
DATE DISCHARGED
4-10-1919
OTHER INFORMATION
Military Medal, 11 Feb 1919 for bravery in the field.
Also 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
STORY OUTLINE
Herbert, known as Charles, was a single labourer who enlisted at Mowbray. When he suffered a gun shot wound to the throat in Egypt in Oct 1918, his mother did not know his fate because she had moved from Toowoomba where her address was recorded, to Brisbane.
She sent a telegram on 24 Nov 1918 to Base Records in Melbourne because she had read in the newspaper that her son had been wounded. She was only officially informed by letter on 6th January 1919 after Herbert Charles's brother, F W Hardwick, who lived in Miallo, had also written to Base Records in Melbourne.
Charles's marriage to Evelena Burdett on 2nd March 1921 was the first marriage to be held in the church in Mowbray.
Mrs M B Connolly made the cake.
SERVICE NO
1113
