Osborne, Harold

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SURNAME

Osborne

NAME

Harold

PLACE OF BIRTH

Mont Albion, Atherton Tablelands, Qld

OCCUPATION

Overseer

DATE ENLISTMENT

3-03-15

NEXT OF KIN

Jane Osborne, Cairns, Qld

LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE

Pioneer family on Daintree River.

Left Daintree in 1887 after collapse of Daintree settlement.

Family lived in northern Queensland mining towns until they returned to Daintree in 1893.

REGIMENT 1

17th Battalion;

RANK

Private

OTHER INFORMATION

Died of bronchopneumonia at Liverpool Camp Cottage Hospital, Sydney 20-05-1915.

STORY OUTLINE

Harold Osborne, son of Daintree pioneer Frank Osborne, had been an overseer on a coconut plantation on Rossel Island when he came back to Australia to enlist.

He died of broncho-pneumonia on 20 May 1915 at Liverpool Camp Hospital, Sydney, while in training with the 17th Battalion.

SERVICE NO

301

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