GURNEY, Herbert
| Service Number: | 2409 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 56th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bigga, New South Wales, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Bigga, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 26 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crookwell War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2409, 56th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2409, 56th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 2409, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Herbert Gurney was the eldest of three brothers who died during WW1. A younger brother, 3847 Pte. Alfred Owen Gurney 18th Battalion AIF had been killed in action on 25 February 1917, aged 22. Also 3053 Pte. Theodore Gurney, 33rd Battalion AIF, died of disease at almost the war’s end on 18 October 1918, aged 21.
They were the sons of William and Louisa Gurney (nee Hudson), of Rosewood, Reid's Flat, New South Wales.
Herbert arrived in France on 7 February 1917. He was wounded in action at Bullecourt, 15 May 1917 (buried by shell); and ended up in the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital, Doullens, 16 May 1917 (suffering from shell shock). He was killed in action during the Battle of Polygon Wood in Belgium and has no known grave.