HURRY, George
| Service Number: | 6850 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 February 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kyneton, Victoria, Australia, 6 December 1884 |
| Home Town: | Kyneton, Macedon Ranges, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank clerk |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Belgium, 18 October 1917, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book, Kyneton Honour Roll, Kyneton War Memorial, MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), St. Kilda East All Saints Anglican Church Mausoleum Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Feb 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 6850, 1st Australian Reserve Park, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 28 Jun 1915: | Involvement Driver, 6850, 1st Australian Reserve Park, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 28 Jun 1915: | Embarked Driver, 6850, 1st Australian Reserve Park, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 18 Oct 1917: | Involvement Lieutenant, 15th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 15th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-10-18 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
GEORGE HURRY was the son of Mr. Henry and Mrs. Mary Hurry, and was born at Kyneton, Victoria, on 6th December, 1884. He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, and joined the service of the Bank at Kyneton on 2nd June, 1903. His subsequent transfers were to Melbourne in August, 1907; Sunshine, 1909; Fitzroy, 1910; and to Melbourne again in January, 1911.
He enlisted on 17th February, 1915, and served with the 15th Battalion in Egypt and France, winning promotion from private to lieutenant. He was still with his unit during the fighting in October, 1917, and on 18th October had just come out of a brisk action when he was killed by a fragment of shell which penetrated his heart.
Source - Bank of NSW Roll of Honour
Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
GEORGE HURRY who was killed in action on 18th October 1917 in France was the younger son of Henry and Mary Hurry (nee Herring). He was born in, 1884 and entered the School from Kyneton in 1901. On leaving School in 1902 he went into the service of the Bank of New South Wales, and was there when he enlisted in February 1915.
He sailed for the front in the following June as a Driver in the Army Service Corps. He was training in Egypt for a time and then was selected as a candidate for Officers' School and proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, reaching England in November 1916. He transferred from the A.S.C. and obtained his commission on 28th March 1917; he joined the 15th Battalion in France on 21st April 1917 and went
through the fighting near Messines.
He was promoted to Lieutenant on 16th September 1917 and took part in the Passchendaele operations in the last of which he was killed. At the time of his death he was in charge of a party detailed to carry wire to the front line, and was killed instantly by shell fire.
His commanding officer wrote : " I feel his death keenly, and his own platoon were much cut up, for they respected and loved him for his quiet, cheerful way under all circumstances. His work in the field has always been consistently good." He was buried at Soda Factory, Zonnebeke.
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