Harold Charles Crossman

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Harold Charles Crossman, 1914. Image courtesy State Library of Queensland.

CROSSMAN, Harold Charles

Service no: 3817 [1]

Place of birth: Orange, 1888

Address: Railway Avenue, Stanmore

Occupation: Labourer

Next of kin: Florence Crossman (wife), Railway Avenue, Stanmore, later 89 Cavendish Street, Stanmore

Date of enlistment: 26 August 1915

Place of enlistment: Orange

Age at enlistment: 27

Fate: Embarked HMAT A54 Runic, Sydney, 20 January 1916. Disembarked Alexandria 26 February 1916. Marched in to Zeitoun, 26 February 1916. Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force, Alexandria, 27 March 1916. Disembarked Marseilles 3 April 1916. Taken on strength, 2nd Australian Divisional Base, Etaples, 4 April 1916. Taken on strength 18th Battalion, B Company, France, 1 June 1916. Received gunshot wounds to the right shoulder and scalp, 29 July 1916. Embarked HS Dieppe, Calais, for transfer to England, 20 July 1916. Admitted to Tunbridge Wells Hospital, England, 30 July 1916. Embarked Folkestone for return to France 28 November 1916. Rejoined battalion, France, 30 November 1916. Received a gunshot wound to the back 3 May 1917. Admitted to 2nd Australian General Hospital, Boulogne, 4 May 1917. Transferred to Tankerton Hospital, Whitstable, 9 May 1917. Transferred to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, 26 June 1917. Discharged to furlough 28 June 1918. Marched in to No 2 Command, Weymouth, 12 July 1917. Rejoined unit, Havre, France, 15 October 1917. Admitted to 39th General Hospital, Havre, with boils, 16 October 1917. Rejoined unit 8 November 1917. Killed in action, Hangard Wood, France, 15 April 1918.

Date of death: 15 April 1918

Buried: Hangard Commnal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot I, Row E, Grave 5