Harry Bolton HUMPHREYS

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HUMPHREYS, Harry Bolton

Service Number:	2858
Enlisted:	11 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wollongong. New South Wales. Australia, 1896
Home Town:	Haberfield, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	High School, Transvaal, South Africa
Occupation:	Engineer
Died:	Killed in action, Pozieres, France, 22 July 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

World War 1 Service

11 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2858, 1st Infantry Battalion
30 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 2858, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
30 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 2858, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Harry Bolton Humphreys was the son of George Bolton Humphreys and Laura Humphreys, of Eastwood, New South Wales.

Harry was born in Wollongong, and was only 19 years of age when he died. His father’s address was in South Africa when Harry enlisted, and on his roll of honour form his father stated that Harry had attended High School in Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He also stated Harry was an apprentice engineer in Haberfield, Sydney prior to the war.

Harry’s older brother, Lieutenant Robert George Humphreys, M.M., also of the 1st Battalion AIF, was killed in action on 16 April 1918, aged 29.

The father, George Bolton Humphries, was an Englishman who had lived in Wollongong, NSW from 1883 and was also serving on an armoured train on during the Boer War on 15 November 1899 with the Durban Light Infantry when he was shot through both legs. He too was among the group of about 50 who were taken prisoner with Winston Churchill, and was most fortunate to have survived his wounds.

Harry Bolton Humphreys died during the 1st Battalion’s famous capture of Pozieres village on 23 July 1916, and he has no known grave.

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