Acting Corporal Harold John Niven
Source: Australian War Memorial
| First year at Wesley | 1907 |
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| Personal information | |
| Date enlisted | 2/04/1915 |
| Unit enlisted | 19th Battalion - Service Number 1359 |
| Service details | Railway accident at Serqueux 25 miles north east of Rouen. He was on a train returning from leave when wagons from a supply train smashed into his train on 13 February 1917. About 30 men killed. Of the 17 buried at Bois Guillaume he is the only Australian. |
| Date of death | 14/02/1917 - 23 years of age |
| Unit details | 19th Battalion |
| Cemetery/Memorial place | Bois Guillaume Communal Cemetery, Rouen - Plot 2 Row D Grave 11A |
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