HERBERT, John Charles
| Service Number: | 1364 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 October 1914, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Violet Town, Victoria, Australia, January 1891 |
| Home Town: | Rutherglen, Indigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Per-Way Worker |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Gallipoli, Turkey, 30 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Beach Cemetery - ANZAC Cove |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Rutherglen War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1364, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1364, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1364, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
John Charles HERBERT (Service Number 1364) was born about January 1891 at Violet Town, Victoria. He enlisted at Liverpool on 29th October 1914 and was allotted to the 2nd Battalion. He gave his calling as ‘Labourer' (he was a per-way worker on the Railways). He was unmarried and as his father was dead he gave his mother as his next of kin.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Seang Bee’ on 11th February 1915. After a short period in Egypt he embarked on HT ‘Derfflinger’ at Alexandria on 5th April to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli and thus landed on the peninsula on Anzac Day or soon after. He was killed in action on 30th May 1915 with a bullet wound to his right side, which had perforated his lung. He was buried in the Hillside Cemetery, Anzac Cove by Father Bergin.
By the time that the military authorities started distributing service medals and other mementoes to next of kin and nearest blood relatives, Herbert’s mother had died. Because he had no brothers or sisters his next of kin was his cousin, Mrs Alice Hawkless of Benalla. The items were entrusted to her under the usual condition that if a closer relative ever made a claim she would return them.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.