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HARVEY, Reginald
| Service Number: | 2091 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 October 1915, at Adelaide, SA. |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, June 1896 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Draper's assistant |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2091, 43rd Infantry Battalion, at Adelaide, SA. | |
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| 28 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2091, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2091, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 2091, 43rd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Aloysius College
Reginald Harvey was born in June, 1896, Adelaide, South Australia to his mother Emily. In 1915, Reginald Harvey was living at 42 Salisbury Street, North Unley, SA with is mother. Harvey was nineteen years and four months old and working as a draper's assistant when he enlisted to go and fight for his country in World War 1, on 14 October 1915. With a height of 5 foot and 9 and a half inches, Harvey had blue eyes and light brown hair and his vision was six out of six.
Reginald Harvey had prior military service having being with 74th Infantry (militia). He boarded the HMAT Anchises A68 ship on 28th August 1916 as part of the 43rd Battalion and the 3rd reinforcement. On the 16th of March 1917, Reginald Harvey and the rest of the 43rd Battalion were signalled to training. Harvey was promoted to corporal and detached from the 43rd Battalion on the 27th of June 1917, and returned to the 43rd Battalion on the 8th of July 1917. On the 24rd of August he was promoted again and a few months later went back to the 43rd Battalion on the 21st of November. He thus spent all of 1917 training in England.
On 30th January 1918 Harvey finally left England for France and joined the 43rd Battalion in the field on 6th February. On the 19th October 1918 Reginald Harvey was taken to the hospital sick with influenza. Less than a month later he went to back to duty and re-joined the 43rd Battalion.
On the 13th of May 1919, Reginald Harvey and the 43rd Battalion marched out of France to return to Australia. On the 4th of September 1919, the 43rd Battalion returned to Australia on the HT Main. In Adelaide families awaited for Reginald Harvey and the rest of the 43rd Battalion to arrive home. Reginald Harvey went back to 42 Salisbury Street, North Unley, SA. Harvey continued to work as a drapery assistant. On the 11th of December 1919, Reginald Harvey received two medals, the British war medal and the Victory medal. Harvey was also discharged for being medically unfit to return or continue fighting for his country.
Reginald's parents were Philip and Emily. His brother Lish was killed with the 48th Battalion at Passchendaele in 1917. His brother Alan (or Allan) also served in the war. There was also another brother Thomas (died 1909), and two sisters whose names have not been discovered.
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