Private Carswell Alexander Heilbronn

Service number 5693
Birth Date 1895-03-12
Birth Place Australia: Queensland, Gympie
Death Date 1977-06-16
Death Place Australia: Queensland, Maryborough
Final Rank Private
Places
Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Carswell Alexander Heilbronn was born at Gympie, Queensland, on 12 March 1895, to parents John and Elizabeth née Cole. He was the third in a family of ten children. He was 20 years old and working as a labourer when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 11 February 1916. Heilbronn embarked at Brisbane with the 18th reinforcements of the 15th Battalion on 4 May 1916, aboard HMAT Seang Choon. He also played the euphonium in the 15th Battalion Band.

Between 30 December 1916 and 27 January 1917, Heilbronn was in hospital and at various convalescent depots in France, as a result of coming down with mumps. He rejoined the 15th Battalion on 17 February 1917, when the unit was stationed at Bécourt B Camp, near Albert, France. Heilbronn was granted leave to the UK on two occasions, in 1917 and again in 1918, before mobilising to return to Australia and left Havre, France on 15 April 1919.

Heilbronn returned to Australia aboard HMAT Beltana on 2 June 1919. He was one of a group of returned soldiers who played against the Childers Cricket Team on 17 April 1920, bowling out 2 for 21 runs. He married Ethel May Kruger in Queensland on 26 January 1935. The couple had one son, Raymond Neil, born in 1936, who died on 23 December 1937. Between 1937 and 1943 he was living in Bundaberg, Queensland. By 1949, he had moved to the Wide Bay region of Queensland. Carswell Heilbronn died at Maryborough, Queensland, on 16 June 1977, aged 82.

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Date of birth 12 March 1895
Date of embarkation 04 May 1916
Date of death 16 June 1977

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