HUTCHINSON, Herbert Bruce
| Service Number: | 575 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1915, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glebe Point, New South Wales, Australia, 18 January 1896 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newtown & Cleveland St Schools, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Electrical Engineer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 January 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Guards Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Picardie |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glebe Roll of Honor, Glebe War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 575, 19th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 575, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 575, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 1 Sep 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
| 6 Nov 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
| 13 Dec 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
| 2 Jan 1917: | Involvement Sergeant, 575, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 575 awm_unit: 19 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-01-02 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Herbert Bruce HUTCHINSON (Service Number 575) was born on 18th January 1896 at Glebe Point. He began working for the NSW Tramways as an electrical junior in Sydney on 14th November 1913. He claims on his Attestation Papers, which were signed upon his enlistment in February 1915, that he had served 18 months as an apprentice with the firm Buchanan & Field, Electrical Engineers. According to his Tramway Record he was appointed to the Metropolitan Power House two weeks after joining the Railways and remained employed there until he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces.
He was unmarried and gave his father living in Glebe Point as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 19th Battalion. He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Ceramic’ on 25th June 1915. He had joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on Gallipoli,by 16 August. His four months in that campaign have left no record. He returned to Alexandria (Egypt) through Mudros (on the Greek island of Lemnos) in January 1916 after the abandonment of the Dardanelles campaign.
After two months rest and reformation of the units, Hutchinison proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force in France though Alexandria and Marseilles. On 1st September 1916 he was promoted to Lance Corporal, and then Corporal on 6th November and Sergeant on 13th December.
He was killed in action on 2nd January 1917 near Flers. His remains were exhumed, and they are now interred at Les Boefs Guards Cemetery Plot 5 Row E Grave 10, Péronne, Picardie, France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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