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| | Partridge, Eric Honeywood (1894 - 1979) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | PARTRIDGE, ERIC HONEYWOOD (1894-1979), lexicographer, writer and soldier, was born on 6 February 1894 in the Waimata valley, near Gisborne, New Zealand, eldest of four sons of John Thomas Partridge, sheepfarmer, and his wife Ethel Annabella, née Norris. |
 | | Partridge enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 23 April 1915, embarked with the 26th Battalion on 25 May, and served on Gallipoli from early September until evacuated with jaundice and paratyphoid. |
 | | Partridge was determined to pursue a career as a man of letters and in 1927 launched the Scholartis Press. |
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