CHARD, Herbert Hercules
| Service Number: | 3602 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1917, Bondi, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Unknown |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Illness, Sydney, New South Wales, 19 February 1968 |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3602, 54th Infantry Battalion, Bondi, NSW | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3602, 54th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3602, 54th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 15 Feb 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3602, 35th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia & discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Herbert Hercules CHARD was born as Gilbert Herbert in Melbourne, Victoria in 1887
His parents were Gilbert Henry Henderson CHARD & Susan COSS who married in Bathurst, NSW in 1865
He married Annie Josephine IRELAND in Sydney in 1908
He enlisted in Bondi, Sydney on 8th January, 1917 and embarked from Sydney on the HMAT Anchises with the 54th Infantry Battalion, 9th Reinforcements on the 24th January, 1917
He was wounded in France on 12th October, 1917 & 20th October, 1917 and returned to Australia on 15th February, 1918
Herbert died on 19th February, 1968, late of Dulwich Hill, Sydney and was cremated at Rookwood Crematorium
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