Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 29/09/1915
- Date of Discharge
- 14/10/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Goulburn NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Crookwell NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Glenovel PO via Goulburn NSW (previously Ginninderra ACT)
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Next of Kin
- Ted Boreham (father), Glenovel PO via Goulburn NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 1996
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 5 Division Ammunition Column AIF
Commemoration
Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall ACT
Belconnen Area Enlistments WW1, Ellen Clark Park, Smith Street, Weetangera
Goulburn War Memorial & Museum, Rocky Hill
Crookwell War Memorial
Notes
Heric Boreham originally came from the Crookwell district where he was born in 1895. His father was a grazier and before the war his family leased Deasland and Nine Elms along the Yass Road at Ginninderra. Sometimes referred to as 'Eric', he enlisted on 28 September 1915 at 20 years of age and sailed from Sydney on 3 February 1916 as part of the 14th reinforcements for the 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment but transferred to an artillery unit after reaching Egypt. He served in the 5th Division artillery with the 14th Field Artillery Brigade and the 13th Field Artillery Brigade in Belgium and on the Western Front. He was discharged on 14 October 1919.
Post war Boreham worked as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon during 1921 and 1922. He married Mary Maxwell in Queanbeyan in 1921 and they had two sons who both served in World War 2. He later lived with his family at Russell Hill (also known as Poverty Gully but nowadays as Campbell) in the late 1920s. Heric Boreham died on 29 April 1929 and was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Queanbeyan.
Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 130 pounds, chest 34 inches, single, dark complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair, Church of England.
Sources
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000.
Ann Gugler, 'The Builders of Canberra 1909-1929', 1994
Queanbeyan Age - 16 December 1919
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)