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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Echuca
• Land Victoria, Australia.
• Family Son of Herman and Margaret Holschier; youngest of eight children; Herman’s brother, Henry John Holschier, served with the New Zealand Army from 5 May 1916 until the war’s end.
• Extra info Herman’s name is recorded on Panel 172 Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT, Dandenong Shire Hall Roll of Honour and Dandenong State School Roll of Honour.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Melbourne on1 March 1916
• Service number 2638
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Australian Pioneers
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Melbourne on 18 September 1916; to France on 1 January 1917

Death

• Wounded To hospital on 27 February 1917; back to unit on 6 March 1917; wounded 29 September 1917;
• Type of wounds Died of wounds, bomb, wounds in both legs at n°10 CCS
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - AA - 17A

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