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Harold Batt

  • Service number
    • WWI 7442 AWMM
    • ANF1344 Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - ANF Engagement and Service Records 1903-1911
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    Navy AWMM
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Full caption reads: 'New Zealand Lads in Blue: Group of boys from the land of the Kiwi and Moa serving on board HMS [sic] Australia'.

Photograph of New Zealanders serving on HMAS Australia in 1915.

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Harold AWMM
  • Surname
    Batt AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • WWI 7442 AWMM
    • ANF1344 Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - ANF Engagement and Service Records 1903-1911
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    18 April 1892 AWMM Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Marion Ethel (wife), 160 Queen Street, Woolahra, Sydney AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Navy AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWI 7442 AWMM
    • ANF1344 Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - ANF Engagement and Service Records 1903-1911
  • Military service
    • HMAS Sydney AWMM
    • HMAS Cerberus AWMM
    • Royal Australian Navy Public - Keith - Researcher - 20 November 2019 - Source

      Harold Batt, Discovering Anzacs

      RAN Service cards – Petty officers & men
      Series A6670, Barcode: 4395266BATT HAROLD : Service Number - 7442 :
      Date of birth - 18 Apr 1892 : Place of birth - PALMERSTON NTH NZ :
      Next of Kin - BATT MARION
    • HMAS Australia Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - NZ sailors in RAN
    • Royal Navy (Australian Naval Force) Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - ANF Engagement and Service Records 1903-1911
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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Branch Trade Proficiency
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  • Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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Biographical information

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Death

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  • Death
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

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Sources

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  • External links
    • Harold Batt, Discovering Anzacs
      https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/769583
      Further Reference
    • NZ sailors in RAN
      http://navymuseum.co.nz/new-zealanders-serving-in-hmas-australia-1915/ Public - Keith - Researcher - 20 November 2019 - ANF

      Some identified sailors

      247, Lawrence James McHattie.
      7198, Charles Allen.
      7453, William Stanley Keyworth.
      2678, Leopold Edgar Herbert Brusewitz.
      7536, George Brook Pulham.
      4106, George Wallace.
      2441, Robert Ralph Cavaye.
      2297, Lionel Brown.
      7429, William John Cox.

      7604, Fred Arnold Lewthwaite.
      8234, Malcolm Vivian Clow.
      7412, Walter Taylor.
      7968, Andrew Aitken Johnston.
      1004, Alexander Gordon Champion.

      7442, Harold Batt.
      7441, William Anniss.
    • ANF Engagement and Service Records 1903-1911
      https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1418759 Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - ANF Engagement and Service Records 1903-1911
      AWM266 5/3/1344 - 1344 Harold Harry Batt
  • References
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • 1911 England Census of 02 April 1911,
      Royal Navy, China and East Indies, Vessels, HMS Pioneer Public - Keith - Researcher - 21 November 2019 - Class: RG14; Piece: 34972; Registration District Number: 640;
      Harold Batt; 18 years; Ordinary Seaman; Palmerston N, New Zealand; Presbyterian;

      https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?sourcecategory=census%2c+land+%26+surveys&collection=census&keywords=rg14pn34972+rd640+pioneer&keywordsplace_proximity=5&datasetname=1911+census+for+england+%26+wales&sourcecountry=great+britain ANF vessels

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