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Born: 25 August 1896
Died: 8 December 1975
Cousin of Mervyn Bede Welch.
Mother lived at 61 Spit Road.
B Company, 3rd Battalion. Wounded May 1915, Gallipoli - "shrapnel wound scalp, chest and leg, serious."
A letter from Harcourt Welch in his service records, dated 1967, states, in part:
I landed on Gallipoli on 25th of April 1915. I was wounded on the 19th May 1915. Firstly I received a shrapnel wound in my chest & while being carried on strecher received machine gun bullet through my right knee. I rejoined my Battalion after the evacuation from Gallipli and went to France where I served a further 18 months before being invalided to home service in England with trench-feet.
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- THE ROLL OF HONOR - NSW WOUNDED (newspaper article)
- WELCH Harcourt : Service Number - 382 : Place of Birth - West Maitland NSW : Place of Enlistment - Sydney NSW : Next of Kin - (Mother) WELCH Agnes A (item)
- Discovering Anzacs - Harcourt Welch (webpage)
- First World War Embarkation Roll - Harcourt Welch (webpage)
- Pte. H. Welch (photograph)
- NEW SOUTH WALES. WOUNDED. (newspaper article)
- NEW SOUTH WALES. RETURNED TO DUTY. (newspaper article)
- Commemorations
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- WELCH H. on the North Face of the Mosman War Memorial
- Welch, H.M. on the Mosman Public School Roll of Honour