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Dossetor-H-A-Pte-6682

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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Dossetor H A  Pte     510   Howard Ashton  4 Inf Bn   21   Labourer    Single    C of E

Address:  Sydney, Erskine St, Queensland Hotel

Next of Kin:  Dossetor, D R, Father, Mitchell St, Goodwood, South Australia

                   Daniel Robert Dossetor, architect, is listed in the 1909, 1914 and 1919 Electoral Rolls at

                   Woodland St, Essendon.

Enlisted:  25 Aug 1914

Embarked A14 Euripides 20 Oct 1914 (Sydney)

RTA Themistocles, discharge 2MD 11 Dec 1915 medically unfit

 

Dossetor   H A Pte   6682    Howard Ashton     20 Inf Bn    22    Area officer    Single    C of E        

Address:    Lindfield, NSW    

Next of Kin:    Dossetor, D R, father, Fashoda St, Hyde Park, Adelaide    

Re-enlisted:    11 Dec 1916        

Embarked:     A18 Wiltshire 7 Feb 1917 

Prior service:  School cadets, 2 years 6 months, AIF 15 months, CMF  2 months  

 

Relatives on Active Service:

Dossetor, F E Capt Chaplain, British Army, brother

Salmon-P-W--A-g Sgt-6897  brother-in-law KIA

 

Essendon Gazette 27 May 1915

 

Private Howard Ashton Dossetor (wounded) is a son of Mr. D. R. Dossestor of Essendon. He was at the Melbourne Grammar School in 1909 and 1910, and prior to enlistment was a student at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College.  Consequently he enlisted with the 4th Battalion (New South Wales).  The Rev F. B. Dossetor, rector of the Church of England at Woolwich (Eng), is a brother of Private Dossetor.

 

War Services Old Melburnians, 1914-1918

 

GUY MARTIN writes thus from Egypt: "Yesterday it was my day off, and it was my intention to spend the afternoon writing to you, but at about 1 p.m. a message was brought down to our Corps that an Old Melburnian was in the hospital at Cairo, wounded, and was anxious for some Old Melburnians to go and see him. So  MORGAN, JACKSON and I went in, but we had been  given the wrong directions, and could not find him. We were told to go to the Kasr-el-Nil Hospital, but he was not there, and we were sent on to Ghezireh, but found he was not there either, but believe he is out at one of the Heliopolis ones. LEO is going out there to-morrow, to try and find him, and if he is successful I will go out on Tuesday -f course, providing we are here. I don't know if it is the DOSSETOR who went to School with me, and was an old pal of mine, or  whether it is his younger brother; however, whichever one it is, I believe he is pretty low. We saw a great number of the wounded yesterday, and they all seem very cheerful, and anxious to get  back to the front to get quits for their wounds, although some of them are short of a hand or some such thing. I had a look through the occupants of the Hospital we were at, but did not see any wounded I knew, but it is hard to see anyone, as Australians, English, and New Zealanders are all mixed up together. To-day I had a post-card from young DAVE (his brother), written the day before he left for the front. By Jove! he was game; I believe they called for ten volunteers from the 1st L.H.F.A., to act as stretcherbearers with the Army Medical Corps, as there had been big losses amongst them at the front, and young Dave was the first to step out. I have  written him a post-card to-night, but don't know if they are sending any mail on. All our fellows are dying to get away to the front with the Infantry, and are all asking for transfers.  All the machine-guns are leaving here to-day; don't know where they are going, though. LEO and HAMMOND have gone out to Heliopolis today, and Leo intends having another go to find Dossetor."

 

War Services Old Melburnians, 1914-1918

 

H. A. DOSSETOR enlisted on 14th August and embarked as Private in 4th Battalion on 20th October 1914. He took part in the Landing on Gallipoli on 25th April 1915 and three days afterwards was wounded in spine and lung resulting in temporary paralysis and pneumonia.


He returned to Australia on 11th December 1915 and was discharged on 14th February 1916. Two days later he was appointed acting area officer at Goodwood, South Australia with temporary rank of Lieutenant on Unattached list A.M.F. whilst holding such appointment which was terminated on 12th April 1916.  He re-enlisted in A.I.F. on 11th December and embarked with infantry reinforcements in February 1917. In January 1918 he was invalided from the infantry and attached to H.Q. Staff Bhurtpore. Subsequently he was attached to A.S.C. until he was discharged in England in April 1919.

 

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall A-F

Christ Church Roll of Honour

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour Wounded

War Services Old Melburnians, 1914-1918

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