JOLLEY, Bertram Carr
| Service Number: | 3063 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 July 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 56th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 4 February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Cleaner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 25 September 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3063, 56th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 8 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3063, 4th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3063, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 8 Jun 1917: | Honoured Military Medal | |
| 25 Sep 1917: | Involvement Private, 3063, 56th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3063 awm_unit: 56th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-09-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Bertram Carr JOLLEY (Service Number 3063) was born on 4th February 1896 at Warwick, Queensland. He worked for the NSW Tramways was as a cleaner of electric trams. He commenced this work in January 1915.
He enlisted with the AIF on 4th July 1915 at Liverpool. He was unmarried and gave his mother as his next of kin. He gave his age as 18 years and 10 months, when in fact he was 19 years and 5 months.
Initially he was allotted to the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion. He was in Egypt at Tel-el-Kebir on 21st January 1916 and was transferred to the 56th Battalion there on 26th February. In June he embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles (France) and the Western Front. At the end of the year he had leave in the United Kingdom and on his return to France in January 1917 was sent to the Wireless School of Instruction.
On 8th June 1917 Bertram Jolley was awarded the Military Medal.
In July 1917 Jolley was detached with the advanced billeting party and in September he was sent to the Power Buzzer School.
A fortnight after his return, on 25th September 1917, he was posted as missing. A Court of Enquiry sitting three months later declared that he had been killed in action on that date.
A E Browne (MM 74) reported:
‘I was with him at Chateau Wood on September 25th. We were camped in the wood. He went out to have a look at a pill box which was to be used as HQ and was situated about 1½ miles or so away. He and a man called Patterson went together. Both failed to return. I saw them go. We looked for, but could find no trace of either of, them afterwards and concluded they had been blown up in the heavy barrage the Germans suddenly put up near the pill box that afternoon. He was a HQ signaller attached to A.Coy.’
L/Cpl. A. Forster 3092 reported:
‘They were carrying two reels of wire. Someone answering to the description of Jolley and wearing the M.M. ribbon was seen lying dead by two reels of wire by a 56th man on the 25th or 26th.’
Since Jolley has no known grave, he is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.