Harold Alonzo Pidcock

Service number: 2878

Rank: Sapper

Unit: 3rd Pioneers then 2nd Field Co Engineers

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Harold Pidcock was born at Ingleburn in 1893 and was a carpenter. He enlisted on 7 August 1916, giving his mother, at Crown Road, Queenscliff, as next of kin.

He embarked on the Benallaon 9 November 1916 and served with the 3rd Pioneer Battalion, then from 1917 with the 2nd Field Co Engineers. He was absent without leave from 29 October to 16 November 1918, and was given 14 days’ field punishment. In March 1919 he was dangerously ill with broncho pneumonia, but recovered, and was returned to Australia on 16 June 1919 on the Ormonde.