E.+L.+HOUSLEY

Housley, Edwin Leonard, Private, 5713A, 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Matlock, Derbyshire Enlisted Perth, Western Australia Killed in action 11th March 1917 aged 30 Son of Herbert and Blanche Housley, of 178, Eight Avenue, Maylands, Western Australia. Commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial

1911 Census A stone quarry blacksmith Son of Blanche Housley, a bakery shopkeeper, of Bank Road, Matlock, Derbyshire

Edwin Housley enlisted on the 2nd March 1916 in Perth, Western Australia. He was employed as a blacksmith, and stated his next of kin as his mother, Blanche Housley, of 8th Avenue, Maylands, Western Australia. Five feet seven inches tall, he weighed 125 pounds, had a sallow complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England. He had three vaccination marks on his left arm and a scar on his left shin.


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