HUMPHREY, Jesse
| Service Number: | 1954 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Grays, Essex, England, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Ithaca, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 8 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 46., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane City Hall Honour Roll, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1954, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1954, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 19 and the son of John Henry and Annie Humphrey, of "Aylesford," Cochrane St., Red Hill, Brisbane, Australia.
Births Jun 1896 Humphrey Jesse Herbert Orsett 4a 482
Locally born casualties who fell whilst serving with Australian forces in the Great War who are commemorated on the Grays War Memorial are:
Henry C. Aslett
Frank [Francis] Walter Facer
William Mears
Cecil Charles Mitcham
Bertram Neal
Josiah Needham Smith
Albert Stephenson
William George King
It has to be assumed that the following locally born Australian casualties didn’t make it to any of the borough’s war memorials, possibly because there were no living relatives still around in the Grays area when the lists were created.
George Seth Clayton
Charles Culley
John Musgrove
Richard Turnbull
C. Webb
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