HEALEY, Henry Percival
| Service Number: | 1382 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 October 1914, An original of G Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United kingdom, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sleeper hewer |
| Died: | Died of wounds aboard hospital ship "Davonia", buried at sea, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 3 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Belmont Presbyterian Honour Roll, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1382, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), An original of G Company | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1382, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1382, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Henry’s father was Henry Percival Healey, 38 Hordern Street, Newtown, New South Wales. His mother had died in 1893 when he was about 10 years of age.
Henry was wounded in action, Gallipoli, 29 April 1915; died of wounds, HMS 'Devanah', 3 May 1915; buried at sea.
His father died 20 July 1916 so his medals were eventually given to his eldest sister Kate, with permission from his eldest brother, who had been rendered a quadriplegic from wounds at Gallipoli.
His brother, 98 Ernest Francis Healey 1st Field Company Engineers received a GSW (from a sniper’s bullet) to his back at the landing on Anzac, 25 April 1915, resulting in spinal injuries which left him paralysed for life – he was invalided home 15 August 1915.
Another brother 3511B Pte. Reginald Alfred Charles, 54th Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Fromelles on 19 July 1916.
A fourth brother, 2412 Stephen William Healey, 19th Battalion AIF, wrote to the AIF in 1917, requesting to be considered for base duty in England or France, or return to Australia, explaining the family circumstances, and he being the only brother left to look after the remaining members of the family. He was found deserving of discharge, mainly on the instigation of the GOC AIF, General William Birdwood and was sent home on 21 July 1917.
The following article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald 13 May 1915, under the heading PRIVATE HEALEY AND SAPPER HEALEY.
"Private Henry Percival Healey, whose name appeared in the list of those who died of wounds, and Sapper Ernest Frank Healey, who was wounded, are sons of the Rev. H. P. Healey, Presbyterian minister, of Dudley, near Newcastle late of the South Coast. Private Healey, who was 31 years of age, was born in Birmingham, England, and had resided in Western Australia for some years. He left with the 16th Battalion in the first force from that State. Up to yesterday morning the deceased's father had not been officially advised of his son's death. Sapper Healey is 29 years of age, and left Sydney with the engineers' detachment of the First Expeditionary Force. He was married shortly before his departure, and both his wife's parents have since died."
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