BRINSMEAD, Hugh
Service Number: | 291 |
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Enlisted: | 20 February 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Long Gully, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
Schooling: | Marist Brothers' College, Bendigo, Victoria |
Occupation: | Labourer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 4 August 1916 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
20 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 291, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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10 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 291, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
10 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 291, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
2 Sep 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Gallipoli | |
3 Oct 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 291, 23rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, BW to hand. Evacuated to Malta. Rejoined unit in Egypt 8 March 1916. | |
4 Aug 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 291, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 291 awm_unit: 23 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-04 |
Hugh Brinsmead
Hugh Brinsmead was born in Bendigo (Sandhurst) in 1887. He went to the Marist Brothers' School in Bendigo. In about 1911 he obtained work with the Robur Tea Company in Melbourne, which lasted until he enlisted for the War. In late October, 1915, his mother Mary was advised that her son, by then Lance-Corporal Hugh Brinsmead had been wounded at Gallipoli. In November,1915 is was reported that Hugh had disembarked in Malta. Just before Christmas that year it was reported that he was still in hospital in Malta. By March 2, 1916, Hugh had been returned to duty.
On August 4, 1916 Hugh was killed in action at age 27. He was aboard the torpedoed transport Southland and took part in the famous engagement at Lone Pine. The newspaper account noted that Mrs. Brinsmead also had a second son, Private James Brinsmead, serving and that he had just celebrated his 21st birthday, in Egypt.
Source:http://www.brinsmead.net/downunder/du7hughandmary.html
Submitted 11 September 2020 by Jack Coyne
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Commemorated on Marist Brothers' College Roll of Honour, RSL Museum, Bendigo, Victoria.
Parents: Mary and the late Hugh BRINSMEAD, 104 Richardson Street, Albert Park, Victoria
Brother: 3471 James Albert BRINSMEAD, 57th Bn, killed in action, France, 27 November 1916.