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Oxenham, Herbert Anselm, 1876 - 1957
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Name Herbert Anselm Oxenham, 1876 - 1957BiographyDate of Birth: 7 April 1876, Warwick (Qld.)
Date of Death: 16 August 1957
Buried: Gardens of Memory Memorial Park, Mississippi, United States of America (U.S.A.)
Herberts parents were Anselm Oxenham and Ellen O'Keefe. Herbert's father was stationed at the Post and Telegraph Service for North Pine and Redcliffe. According to an article in The Queenslander, published 2 October 1915 Herbert was:
"in the telegraph office, Roma-Street, then Rockhampton, and later took part in the Boer war, afterwards taking up telegraph work in Durban and Johannesburg and Canada. He travelled as wireless operator for two years from the West Indies to England on the Oruba and being skilled in wireless was appointed to a wireless station off Honolulu which position he held with credit till...he left for England, via New York, to offer his service to his country."
In a letter from Herbert quoted in the article, he stated that he had been offered a job as Lieutenant Wireless Equipment Officer with the Royal Flying Corps. He would have been about 39 years old. By the end of the war Herbert had been promoted to the rank of Major and returned to the United States.Birth date07 April 1876Death date16 August 1957
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Oxenham, Herbert Anselm, 1876 - 1957. Moreton Bay Our Story, accessed 07/04/2026, https://ourstory.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/24032
