HENRY, John Herbert Wallace
| Service Number: | 618 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | 6 October 1893, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Cootamundra, Cootamundra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 618, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 618, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Llewellyn Davies
Served at Gallipoli for about two weeks. His brother William Gladstone Henry was killed there on 27 April. Jack was shot through the right knee and invalided out. Wrote to his mother from hospital ship Formosa, August 1915. Letter copied in newspaper "The Leader" at Orange. Arrived London in September 1915, transferred to Mt Vernon Hospital, Hamstead. By the time of his injury he was a sergeant, but later in the war was promoted Lieutenant. He was charged with organizing war stores in London, and was awarded an MBE for this service in 1919:
John Herbert Wallace Henry
Rank: Lieutenant
Unit: General List
Service: Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Award: Member of the Order of the British Empire
Date of Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 6 October 1919
Location in Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: Page 1464, position 11
Date of London Gazette: 3 June 1919
Location in London Gazette: Page 7004, position 50
After the war he was a real estate agent in Sydney. He was married to Mary Rice. They had no issue.
These biographical notes are submitted by his great nephew LMS Davies.
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