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Personal data

• Name WARD
• Initials HV
• First name HAVILAND VANCE
• Place of birth Everton
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Carboor, Victoria
• Family Son of James and Ellen Ward, of Carboor East, Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia; seven brothers and three sisters; Grenville Ward was KIA at Messines Ridge, 8 June 1917; James was gassed and repatriated to Australia.
• Profession Farmer
• Extra info Haviland was recruited during a recruitment march, The Dungarees; he joined the march at Ipswich.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 26 November 1915, Ipswich, Queensland
• Service number 15717
• Rank Gunner
• Medals 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 12th Army Brigade Australian Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division ?
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career To France May 1916; joined 1st ADB Depot, June 1916; transferred to 12th FABde, January 1917; transferred to 112th Battery, 28 September 1917

Death

• Wounded 30 September
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds left leg, fractured femur, in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 30 September 1917
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - G - 1A

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