Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

03/11/1914

Date of Discharge

10/05/1917

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

26/08/1893

Place of Birth

Randwick NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

William Anthony Huxtable (father), La Perouse NSW

Final Rank

Captain

Final Unit

2 Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron AIF

Huxtable entered the Royal Military College at Duntroon in the second intake of cadets in March 1912. He was part of the honour guard of cadets at the naming ceremony for Canberra on 12 March 1913. He was graduated early on 2 November 1914 and joined the 6th Light Horse Regiment as a Lieutenant in C Squadron. Huxtable and his regiment landed on Gallipoli in May 1915 and Huxtable became the 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Officer. However he developed deafness and shell shock and was evacuated to hospital in Cairo in December 1915. After recovering he was appointed as commanding officer of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron in July 1916 but returned to Australia in March 1917 and was discharged shortly afterwards.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 143 pounds, chest 38 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Image from anzacsonline.net.au
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'The Honour Guard at the Canberra Commencement Ceremony', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial