Charles Herbert Haroldson

Born 2.01.1872      Place Lunholmen, Gothenburg, Sweden (naturalisation); Moscow (service records)   Ethnic origin Swede      Religion

Arrived at Australia

            from Hamburg      on 13.03.1892    per Howden   disembarked at Port Adelaide

Residence before enlistment Port Adelaide, Gawler, Melrose, Port Augusta, SA; Sydney

Occupation seaman AB

Family by 1908 he had a wife, 1 son and 3 daughters, by 1914 widower; son Charles Herbert served in the AIF in 1918-1919

Service

service number 1227   enlisted 15.09.1914   POE Sydney

unit 7th Company ASC   rank Driver and batman

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916      casualties WIA, 1915

final fate RTA 23.05.1917       discharged 8.09.1917

Naturalisation 1908

Residence after the war Sydney

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA) (Haroldsen)

digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Some claimed on one occasion to be Russian-born but another time said they were born elsewhere. Charles Herbert Haroldson, who arrived in Australia as a 20-year-old seaman in 1892, was apparently Swedish if you believe his naturalisation papers. However, when enlisting in the AIF in 1914, by then a widower with four children, Haroldson gave his birthplace as Moscow.

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