Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 04/04/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 10/07/1920
- Place of Enlistment
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 04/02/1897
- Place of Birth
- Goulburn NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Soldier
- Next of Kin
- Henry Huxtable (father), Edgecliffe NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Final Rank
- Lieutenant
- Final Unit
- 3 Machine Gun Battalion AIF
Notes
Huxtable entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 12 March 1914 and graduated on 3 April 1916. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant with the 9th Machine Gun Company, along with fellow RMC cadets David Whitehead and Charles Wedd, and embarked for England with them in May 1916. He attended a Staff Officer's training course at Cambridge before joining his unit in January 1917 in the Armentières sector of northern France. Huxtable suffered a compound fracture to the left arm when wounded on 23 February 1917 and it was amputated five weeks later at hospital in England. After convalescing, Huxtable attended various training courses and was attached to AIF Headquarters before returning to France and rejoining his unit (now designated as the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion) in June 1918. After the Armistice he was temporarily commissioned as a Lieutenant with the British Army and eventually returned to Australia in July 1920. Huxtable retired from the army in 1926 and died in Cronulla near Sydney on 6 July 1970.
Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 152 pounds, chest 35-38½ inches, Methodist.
Sources
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)