HERMAN, Harold Ellis
| Service Number: | 1706 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 May 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | London, England, United Kingdom, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Fort Street Boys High School |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds - bullet wounds to the skull, At sea on board HS Somali off Lemos, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 20 November 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, buried at sea Rev. Sealy officiated |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Petersham Fort Street High School Great War Honour Roll, Sydney The Great Synagogue Roll of Honour, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 18 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1706, 17th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 28 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 1706, 17th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 1706, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 19 Nov 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1706, 17th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Bullet wound to the skull |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Jacob Herman of 'Garda', Waverley Crescent, Waverley, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed
After leaving Fort Street School the late Private Harold Herman was employed at Messrs. Hoffnung & Co. for a year, and then went into business with his brother at Pambula, South Coast, N.S.W., where he resided for about three years, while later he assisted in the management of his father’s business, where he was when war broke out. He enlisted in May, 1915, and though offered an opportunity of entering the Officers’ Training School, thought the call to Gallipoli too urgent, and left with the 2nd Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion Infantry in July. After a week in Egypt he entered the trenches at Quinn s Post on September 17, and after twp months’ continuous fighting was wounded by a machine gun bullet through the side of his eye, on the evening of November 17, when assisting to stop an attack by the Turks during a heavy storm which was raging at the time. He died on board the Hospital Ship “ Somali” on November 20th 1915.
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