DOVELL, Herbert John
| Service Number: | 1699 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 June 1915, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Combe Martin, England, 1886 |
| Home Town: | Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Combe Martin School, England |
| Occupation: | Signwriter/Decorator/Sleeper-cutter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozières, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1699, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia | |
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| 23 Jul 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 28th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Jul 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Fremantle | |
| 12 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 28th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1699, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Patricia Dovell
My great uncle Herbert John Dovell departed England with his brother Lewis Dovell to find work in Australia. Lewis and Herbert were decorators, carpenters and sign writers. They both worked in Australia as sleeper cutters. Both men joined the A.I.F. and embarked for service abroad, fighting in various campaigns.
Herbert sadly died fighting alongisde his brother 1698 Pte. Lewis Dovell (/explore/people/287748) who had to march onward, leaving his brother.
After the war Lewis, (my grandfather) returned to England and married Rose. Lewis and Rose had four children the eldest named after his brother Herbert who was never forgotten.
My grandfather never got over having to leave his brother behind.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 29 and the son of John and Helen Dovell of Glen Cottage, Combe Martin.
He is remembered on the COMBE MARTIN 1914 - 1918 WAR MEMORIALS
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Dec 1886 DOVELL Herbert John Barnstaple 5b 462
He is remembered on the Combe Martin War Memorial erected in 1921 in the Combe Martin Memorial Garden [Garden of Remembrance] at the church of St Peter ad Vincula in Church St., Combe Martin, North Devon, Devon, EX34.
It was made by William C. Williams and Co., and is constructed of light grey granite with bronze relief plaques. It has a rusticated square stepped base with a tapering square plinth, rising to square shaft, topped by a wheel headed Cross. A plaque on the east face of the plinth bears the text: `To the honoured memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives for their country in the Great War 1914 -1919 .They died that we might live'.
The memorial is set within a walled memorial garden with wrought iron gates. It was unveiled by the Bishop of Exeter. The plaque is engraved but not easy to read.
He is also honoured on the war memorial in the church of St Peter ad Vincula in Church St.,
Combe Martin, North Devon.
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