CUGLEY, Harold Herbert
| Service Number: | 2050 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Aldgate Valley, South Australia, April 1895 |
| Home Town: | Goodwood, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Aldgate Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial Plot 53, Row A, Grave No. 3. , |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Goodwood St George Anglican Church Memorial Tower, Mylor War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2050, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 28 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2050, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2050, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2050, 43rd Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Lemar
Harold was the son of Charles Robert CUGLEY & Sarah Ann HADDEN and was born on the 13th of May 1895 near Aldgate, SA.
His parents were married on the 21st of December 1873 in the Holy Trinity Church, Bristol, England.
His parents and his two older sisters emigrated from Plymouth on the 11th of January 1883 on board the "Cicero", arriving in Pt Adelaide on the 13th of April 1883.
The family moved to Aldgate and Harold was the 10th child born into the family of 12 children.
In 1906 his father was a ranger for Stirling.
By 1911 the family had moved to Cross Roads, Clarence Park.
Harold was 16 years old when his mother died on the 29th of December 1911.
In 1914 he lived at home with his father at Grange Road, Cottonville and he was a gardener.
He joined the 75A Battalion Senior Cadets in Unley for 2 years and then tried to join the Citizen Force, but was medically rejected due to Rheumatism.
Harold enlisted into the 43rd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement on the 9th of June 1916 in Adelaide and allotted the service number 2050.
He embarked from Adelaide on board the HMAT A68 Anchises on the 28th of August 1916, disembarking in Plymouth on the 11th of October.
They entrained at Folkstone and proceeded to Etaples, France on the 28th of March 1917.
The 43rd Battalion spent 1917 bogged in bloody trench warfare in Flanders. In June the battalion took part in the battle of Messines.
On the 13th of August 1917 he suffered a gun shot wound to his left hand and spent six weeks in hospital, rejoining his battalion on the 29th of September 1917 in Ypres for the third battle.
On the 11th of October the battalion was relieved from Hill 40 and at the time, Harold was batman to Lieutenant Kendall in A Company, 2nd Platoon.
On the 12th of October 1917 at about 4:30 pm between Ypres and Passchendale the battalion were sheltering in shell holes, about 2 miles behind the front line.
Harold was in one of these holes with Lieutenant Kendall when a shell exploded on top of the hole killing Harold instantly, but Lieutenant Kendall was not hit.
Harold was Killed in Action on the 12th of October 1917.
It was believed that as they had been under terrific shell fire that no trace of a grave could possibly be there, however he was found and reburied in the
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium; Plot 53, Row A, Grave No. 3.
Reference;
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/164435748/person/282160900606/facts
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