Henry Louis Hart

Service number: 2715

Rank: Sapper

Unit: 7th Field Co Engineers, then 6th Field Co Engineers

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Henry Hart was born at Manly in 1891. He was a carpenter. He enlisted on 26 April 1915, giving as next of kin his wife Doris at 7 Fairy Bower, Manly.

He served as a Sapper with the 7thField Company Engineers. On 5 August 1916 he was wounded in the foot in France. He had three spells of VD in the next six months.

He went AWOL from 9 February 1917 to 8 May 1917. He was imprisoned at Lewes for eighteen months with hard labour in October 1917 for theft. This sentence was remitted on 16 October 1918. He was again arrested for theft at Edinburgh in January 1919.

He was returned to Australia on 1 July 1919 on the Karmala.