BARR, Edward Charles Cloverley
| Service Number: | 5797 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1886 |
| Home Town: | Richmond (V), Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Leather Dresser |
| Died: | East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 April 1926, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 5797, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 5797, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 20 Mar 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5797, GSW LEFT WRIST | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5797, GSW Chest |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by B Stanleu
Edward Charles Cleverley “Ted” Barr was born in 1886 at Richmond, Victoria, one of the younger children of Robert and Maria Barr. He married Florence May Muirhead in 1906, and they raised two children in Richmond.
Ted enlisted in the AIF on 1 August 1916 and embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor with the 16th Reinforcements of the 21st Battalion. After training in England, he joined his battalion in France in February 1917 and soon entered heavy fighting on the Western Front.
His service was marked by extraordinary resilience. Ted was wounded five times: gunshot wounds to the left wrist, chest and left shoulder; a severe shrapnel wound to the right forearm; plus multiple gas exposures. Multiple times he was hospitalised in England, and each time he returned to duty.
Returning to Australia in March 1919, he was discharged medically unfit due to the lasting effects of his wounds and gas poisoning. Ted died in East Melbourne on 6 April 1926, aged 40.
Ted was one of three Barr brothers who served. His brother David Barr was killed in action at Fromelles on 19 July 1916, and his brother Colin Campbell Barr died of wounds received at the Battle of Fromelles on 31 August 1916. Ted survived the war, but like so many veterans, carried its scars for the remainder of his short life and died in 1926, aged 40.
Service
1916
1 August 1916 – Enlisted in the AIF at Melbourne.
2 October 1916 – Embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Nestor (A71).
29 September–5 October 1916 – At sea en route to England.
~November 1916 – Arrived in England, sent to training depots.
1917
9 February 1917 – Joined the 21st Battalion from reinforcements.
27 March 1917 – Admitted to 1st London General Hospital
Wound: Gunshot wound (GSW) left wrist.
30 April 1917 – Transferred from 1st London General Hospital to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital
Diagnosis: GSW left wrist.
20 March 1917 – Recorded separately: Wounded in action (this is the wounding that resulted in the March hospitalisation).
25 March 1917 – Embarked on Hospital Ship St David at Rouen for England
Condition: GSW left wrist.
29–30 May 1917 – Granted furlough.
11 June 1917 – Awarded Admonished (disciplinary note).
*Forfeited 2 days pay.
9 October 1917 – Admitted Horton War Hospital, Epsom
Wound: Shrapnel wound, right forearm (severe).
27 March 1917 (re-entered on card) – Separate record summarising earlier GSW left wrist admission.
5 November 1917 – Transferred from Horton War Hospital to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital
Diagnosis: Shrapnel wounds to chest & left wrist.
1918
21 February 1918 – Rejoined battalion from wounded.
4 March 1918 – Proceeded overseas to France again via overseas training depot.
4 October 1917 (noted again) – Earlier wounding noted and re-dated on file.
9 April 1918 – Embarked on Pieter de Coninck for England
Condition: GSW chest & left wrist.
22 April 1918 – Rejoined battalion from wounded (England).
4 July 1918 – Wounded in action
3rd occasion – remained on duty.
17 July 1918 – Proceeded overseas to France again via Southampton.
23 July 1918 – Wounded in action – GAS
4th occasion.
24 July 1918 – Admitted to 49th Casualty Clearing Station
Diagnosis: Gassed (4th occasion).
6 August 1918 – Admitted to L of C Hospital (wounded).
21 October – 4 November 1918 – On furlough and rejoined from No. 4 Command Depot.
5 October 1918 – Wounded in action – 5th occasion
(later corrected from 4th).
8 October 1918 – Admitted 2nd Australian General Hospital, Dudley Road
Diagnosis: GSW left shoulder.
1919
1 March 1919 – Discharged from the AIF (3rd Military District), returned to Australia on Orontes.
Condition: Medically unfit.
Note: Chronic effects of repeated wounds and gas exposure.