BERRY, Wilfred
| Service Number: | 5280 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 March 1916, Place of enlistment - Perth |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Sudbury, Suffolk, England, September 1887 |
| Home Town: | Leederville, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Sudbury Boarding School & Council School, England |
| Occupation: | Carpenter and Joiner |
| Died: | Accidentally killed on the Ypres-Bertincourt Road, France, 11 February 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt Plot IX, Row F, Grave 18 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5280, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Place of enlistment - Perth | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5280, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), HMAT 'A23' Suffolk from melbourne --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 5280, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5280 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1918-02-11 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Wilfred and Cyril had not left for Australia at the time of the 1911 census.
The eldest brother of Cyril & Wilfred Berry, WR/89329 Sapper Thomas Michael Berry, Royal Engineers, British forces WWI, was born on 19 October 1884 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Like his brothers Wilfred and Cyril, he was a Carpenter by trade. He enlisted in 1916 and served in Egypt and Palestine.
Thomas Emigrated to Australia in 1921. He died at Perth March 29, 1944, and was buried with his parents.
Another brother, Lance Serjeant Herbert Martin Berry, Service Number R/11674 10th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps was Killed In Action by artillery fire at the Battle of Menin Road (The Third Battle of Ypres), Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 20 September 1917, at age 21 years. His body was never recovered. He is memorialised on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Herbert and Wilfred are both commemorated on a stained glass window in Our Lady Help of Christians and St.Helen’s Church in Westcliff-on-Sea [near Southend], Essex and on the war memorial in Prittlewell Priory, Southend.
Births Sep 1887 Berry Wilfred Sudbury 4a 641.
1891 CENSUS
Herbert Berry Head-34-Suffolk, England
Ethelinda Berry –Wife-32-Hampshire, England
Thomas M Berry –Son-7-Sussex, England
Alice K Berry –Daughter-6-Eastbourne, Sussex, England
Wilfred Berry –Son-3-Essex, England
Arthur Berry -Son-1-Suffolk, England
Cyril Berry -Son-0-Suffolk, England
1901 CENSUS
Herbert Berry Head-44-Ballingdon, Essex-
Ethelinda Berry –Wife-42-Aldershot, Hampshire
Thomas Berry -Son-17-Eastbourne, Sussex
Alice Berry –Daughter-15-Eastbourne, Sussex
Wilfrid Berry –Son-13-Ballingdon, Essex. Ballingdon is a suburb of the town of Sudbury in Suffolk, England. Once a separate village in the county of Essex, today it is part of Sudbury civil parish. Ballingdon was in Essex from 1837 to 1889, then in
West Suffolk until 1974
Arthur Berry -Son-11-Sudbury, Suffolk
Cyril Berry –Son-10-Sudbury, Suffolk
Herbert M Berry –Son-4-Sudbury, Suffolk
1911 CENSUS
Herbert Berry –Head-54-Sudbury, Suffolk
P Cheliinda [sic] Berry -Wife-51-Aldershot, Hampshire
Thomas M Berry -Son-27-Eastbourne, Sussex
Alice Berry –Daughter-25-Eastbourne, Sussex
Wilfred Berry –Son-23-Sudbury, Suffolk
Arthur Berry Son-21-Sudbury, Suffolk
Cyril Berry -Son-20-Sudbury, Suffolk
Herbert Berry -Son-14-Sudbury, Suffolk
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