Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

03/08/1917

Date of Discharge

19/09/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

26/05/1896

Place of Birth

Hall NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Junee NSW (previously Hall ACT)

Occupation

Mechanic

Next of Kin

Henry Southwell (father), 'Ainslie', Junee NSW

Service Number

19474

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

1 Field Ambulance AIF

Southwell was born in Hall in 1896. His father worked with the railways and the family was living in Junee when Southwell enlisted. He arrived in Egypt in July 1918 and, after being treated for mumps, served with the 1st Field Ambulance of the Australian Army Medical Corps from September 1918 until he returned to Australia and was discharged on 19 September 1919. Southwell later moved to Kogarah in Sydney. He died at the Concord Repatriation hospital in Sydney on 22 August 1972.

He also enlisted for service in World War 2.

Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 132 pounds, chest 31-33 inches, medium complexion, grey eyes, dark brown hair, Methodist.

Lyall Gillespie, 'The Southwell Family, pioneers of the Canberra district', 1988 (p.102)
Sydney Morning Herald - 14 October 1982
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)