Harold James RAGG

RAGG, Harold James

    Service Number: 3396
    Enlisted: 29 February 1916, Moss Vale, NSW
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 1st Infantry Battalion
    Born: Kew, Victoria, Australia, 1893
    Home Town: Wildes Meadow, Wingecarribee, New South Wales
    Schooling: Leichhardt West Public School
    Occupation: Farm Hand
    Died: Killed in Action, France, 12 August 1918
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burrawang War Memorial, Moss Vale & District Pictorial Honour Roll, Moss Vale RSL War Memorial, Moss Vale War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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    World War 1 Service

    29 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3396, 30th Infantry Battalion, Moss Vale, NSW
    2 May 1916: Involvement Private, 3396, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
    2 May 1916: Embarked Private, 3396, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
    12 Aug 1918: Involvement Corporal, 3396, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3396 awm_unit: 1 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-08-12

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    Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

    Son of George Thomas and Fanny Martha Ragg, of Wilde's Meadow, New South Wales.

    LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.
    Miss Irene Bierton, of Frank street, Newtown, has received a letter from Private H. J. Ragg, England, September 3rd, thanking her for socks, postcard and cigarettes, which he received while he was in  Egypt. Miss Bierton is between 7 and 8 years and knitted the socks herself.

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