HARDEY, Joseph
| Service Number: | 81 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth Western Australia, 13 July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Scotch College Swanbourne, Western Australia. |
| Occupation: | Pearl/Shell Opener |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres France, 29 July 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Broome Roads Board WWI Roll of Honour, Broome War Memorial (New), Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Mount Lawley - Inglewood War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 81, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 12 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 81, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoff Tilley
Joseph Hardey was born on 13th July 1893 in Perth Western Australia to Richard Watson Hardey and Kathleen Emilie Beurteaux who were married in 1892.
Richard’s father was a widower where Joseph had an older half-brother from his father’s first marriage and a sister from the second marriage to Kathleen.
Joseph’s father was a pastoralist (viticulturists – grapes) and a politician, who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia on three occasions.
Joseph schooling was at Scotch College, Claremont. On leaving school he moved to Broome where he started working as a pearler and shell opener.
In February 1915 Joseph enlisted into the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) conducting his training at Blackboy Hill attached to 28th Battalion assigned to A Company.
In June 1915 Joseph embarked for overseas service arriving at Gallipoli in September 1915.
He was promoted to Lance Corporal in August and Corporal in December of 1915, where he was evacuated back to Egypt at the end of the Gallipoli campaign.
In March 1916 Joseph embarked for France for service on the Western Front.
The battalion was sent to the Somme region and by July was in action in the frontline near the village of Pozieres.
It was north of Pozieres that Joseph was involved in a nighttime attack on the German Trenches of OG1 and OG2, where they came up against heavy artillery and machine gun fire.
The attack was held up in heavy barb wire entanglements that the preparatory bombardment had failed to destroy which became a killing ground for the men of the 28th Battalion.
It is recorded that Joseph was killed by a bullet in no man’s land on the morning of the 29th July, just after the attack had been launched at 1230am.
Joseph’s body was never recovered from the battlefield.
Corporal Joseph Hardey service number 81 of 28th Battalion was killed in action 29th July 1916 at Pozieres France. He was 23 years of age.
He has no known grave and is remembered on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial France and is remembered with honour.