Darrell Lorraine BLEECHMORE

Darrell Lorraine BLEECHMORE Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

BLEECHMORE, Darrell Lorraine

Service Number:	333
Enlisted:	3 February 1915, Melbourne
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	22nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Cora Lynn, Terowie, South Australia, 25 September 1890
Home Town:	Brighton, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Armadale State School, Victoria
Occupation:	Photographer
Died:	Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 5 August 1916, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Serre Road Cemetery No 2, Beaumont Hamel, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

3 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 333, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Melbourne
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 333, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 333, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
5 Aug 1916:	Involvement Sergeant, 333, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 333 awm_unit: 22 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-08-05

Help us honour Darrell Lorraine Bleechmore's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Darrell Lorraine BLEECHMORE was born in Cora Lynn, Terowie, South Australia

His parents were James Clarence BLEECHMORE & Sarah Isabel ROEBUCK

He served as a Sergeant in the Senior Cadets before he enlisted in Melbourne on 3rd February, 1915 with the Light Horse & transferred to the 22nd Infantry Battalion & embarked with the 22nd Infantry Battalion, B Company on the HMAT Ulysses on 10th May, 1915

Darrell was Killed in Action at Pozieres in France on 5th August, 1916 - no known grave

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Villers Bretonneux Memorial

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia