Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

08/09/1915

Date of Discharge

15/09/1918

Place of Enlistment

Cootamundra NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

16/09/1885

Place of Birth

Hall ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Augustine Street, Hunters Hill NSW (previously Hall ACT)

Occupation

Clergyman

Next of Kin

James Southwell (father), 'Heywood' via Hall ACT

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

22 Battalion AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall ACT
Roll of Honour, Wattle Park Church, Barton Highway, Hall

Norman Southwell was born near Hall on 16 September 1885. He had qualified as a Methodist clergyman and was ministering in the Narranderra district when he enlisted in September 1915 at Cootamundra. Southwell attended the Officers Training School at Duntroon and was commissioned as a Lieutenant on 20 May 1916. He embarked the following October with the 17th reinforcements to the 22nd Battalion and joined his unit in Belgium in November 1917. Southwell was wounded by gun shots to the elbow, back and right thigh in May 1918 near Ville-sur-Ancre. He was hospitalised in London before returning to Australia in June 1919 and being struck off strength on 27 September 1918. He married Effie Howard in Sydney in 1920 and died on 12 August 1957 in Manly. He was the brother of Aubrey Southwell.

Description - height 5 feet 9 inch, weight 145 pounds, chest 37½ inches, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Methodist, scar on chin.

Lyall Gillespie, 'Ginninderra - Forerunner to Canberra', 1992
Lyall Gillespie, 'The Southwell Family, pioneers of the Canberra district', 1988
National Library of Australia: Country Women's Association of NSW (Canberra Branch) History, 1959 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 734)
NAA RecordSearch
Monaro Pioneers Index - http://www.monaropioneers.com/pioneers.htm
Queanbeyan Age - 5 October 1915, 4 April 1916, 25 October 1918, 27 June 1919
Sydney Morning Herald - 17 August 1957