Harold Ernest Amos

Service number: 127

Rank: Private

Unit: 2nd Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 1 March 1915

Place of death: HMAHS Kyarra en route Egypt to Australia

Cause of death: Illness

Cemetery or memorial details: Chatby Memorial, Egypt

War Grave Register notes: AMOS, Pte. H. E., 127. 2nd Bn. Australian Inf. Died of sickness at sea 1st March, 1915.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Harold Amos was the son of Mrs Susannah Amos of Latroma, 85 Darley Road, Manly, who later lived at Fisher Street, Balgowlah. He enlisted on 17 August 1914 aged 22 years and 9 months. He was a carpenter and seaman in civilian life, and had previously spent 2 years with the Brisbane Mounted Rifles, from which he had resigned.

On several occasions he breached discipline, and was given 21 days for insubordination; his CO recorded that he was a bad influence. He was returned to Australia suffering from venereal disease and septicaemia, and died on the hospital ship Kyarra en route.

He was the first man from the Manly area to die during the war.