Harold George SALMON

Birthplace
Bexley NSW
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Frame Maker
Enlisted
01-March-1916
Place
Toowoomba
Age
22
Status
Married
Service No
2499
Rank
Private
Unit
47th Battalion, 5th Reinforcements
Embarked
19-September-1916
Place
Brisbane
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Killed in action
Date
08-June-1917
Place
Messines, Belgium
Cemetery or Memorial
Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium
Notes

Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial and St Luke’s Anglican Church Toowoomba Honour Board.

Cousin of 3331 Lance Sergeant Ernest Augustus Jentsch (KIA) (not on Roll of Honour).

 

Harold Salmon arrived in France in March 1917 after training in England for three months. He was killed in action on 8 June at Messines in Belgium. His body was never found