Herbert Anselm Oxenham, SN Unknown, Service Record

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NameHerbert Anselm Oxenham, SN Unknown, Service RecordBiographyDate 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:
â'œin 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.â'
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.Date01 January 1914 - 31 December 1920CustodianNational Archives of Australia - 01 Feb 1998 - PresentLocation of originalsOriginals held by the National Archives of United Kingdom (UK) - TNA : AIR 76/384/136LanguageEnglishOriginal formatLink to external source : Paper files and documents