HART, Joseph
| Service Number: | 190 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 22 January 1896 |
| Home Town: | Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Paddington Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Jeweller |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 20 July 1916, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ration Farm Military Cemetery, la Chapelle-D'Armentieres Plot VI. Row H. Grave 48. Inscription: A LOVING AND FAITHFUL SON |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 190, Depot Battalion , Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 190, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 190, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 190, 30th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria for B.E.F per H.M.T. "Hororata" | |
| 23 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 190, 30th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Marseilles, France | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 190, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) | |
| 20 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 190, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Killed In Action |
Reflections on his family's WWI involvement
Several of our family fought in WWI. Some, including my paternal grandfather William Wallace Ryan, survived and returned to Australia.
Joseph Hart was my paternal grandmother's cousin, sadly he did not survive the war.
I don't even know if this young man and my grandfather, who was also in his early 20s when he signed up, ever actually met.
They became family through marriage, and my grandfather and grandmother were not married until after the war. I don't know if my grandparents knew each other before the war when they were teenagers.
So many questions I now wish I had asked my grandmother when she was still with us (grandfather died before I was born).
Was Joseph Hart one of the young men in a photo I have of my grandfather and his tennis playing companions in Sydney, a photo of happy young men and women that seems so far removed from images of war?
I guess we'll never know...
Submitted 9 July 2021 by Susan Ryan
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