Eric Holloway

Service number: 15506

Rank: Private

Unit: 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Eric Holloway was a bank clerk. He enlisted on 14 February 1916, aged 18, and gave his father Charles of Suakin Street as his next of kin.

He embarked on the Katuna. He served in the Middle East, and was wounded at Beersheba on 3 November 1918. He was awarded the Military Medal on 11 December 1917.

He was a Driver with the 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance in 1918.

He returned to Australia on the Ulimaroa on 13 March 1919.

He was the first boy to be born at Harbord, and Eric Street, Harbord was named after him.

He died in 1945 after a long illness related to his WWI service.