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33rd BATTALION AIF

Lance Corporal: 1232 Harold Henry PARTRIDGE.

Born: 1890. Niangala via Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia. Birth Cert:33166/1890

Married 1: 1920 Walcha, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:7334/1920

Wife 1: Mary J Partridge. nee: Levingston.

Married 2: 1923 Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:14030/1923

Wife 2: Kathleen H Partridge. nee: Grattan.

Died: 1966. Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Death Cert: 22910/1966


Father: Henry Partridge.

Mother: Rebecca Partridge. nee:.


INFORMATION

Harold Henry Partridge enlisted with D Company 33rd Battalion on the 28th of January 1916. and returned to Australia on the 11th of January 1918

WIA 7th June 1917 Messines Ridge

Major White of the flank company had therfore to trust mainly to his snipers, who-chief among them one named Partridge Lance Corporal: 1232 Harold Henry PARTRIDGE. 33rd Battalion , prevented almost all enemy movement in that corner. After half a dozen Germans had been shot trying to creep to the southern crater, the enemy abandoned the attempt.

(BEAN; History of WW1 Vol IV p597)

Family Information

Harold Henry Partridge was a Farmer from Niangala via Tamworth upon enlistment. Harlold's first wife Mary died in 1922 at Walcha, N.S.W. Death Cert:13271/1922.

Military Records

(Australian National Archives)

Under Construction. 15/11/2006


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