PRITCHARD, Herbert Ernest
| Service Number: | 2141 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 6 November 1886 |
| Home Town: | Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 20 July 1916, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Bethune, Nord Pas de Calais Plot I, Row K, Grave No. 70 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lambton Fallen Soldiers HR, Teralba Public School Boys HR |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2141, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2141, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2141, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 20th July 1916, Private Herbert Ernest Pritchard, known as Herb, 30th Battalion (Reg No-2141), railway porter from 13 Elder Street, Lambton, New South Wales, was Killed in Action during the Battle of Fromelles, age 29. Cause of death unknown.
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1652582/ - Roll of Honour.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 6th November 1886 to William Alfred (died 17.3.1900, Lambton, N.S.W., age?) of Karoola Road, Lambton, N.S.W., and Mary Ann Pritchard (storekeeper, died 16.11.1942, Lambton, N.S.W., age?) of 13 Elder Street, Lambton, N.S.W., Herb enlisted on the 17th September 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137974234 - report of a send-off and the presentation of a medal to Herb and 40 other Railway and Tramway service recruits at King's Hall, Newcastle.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on the 16th February 1916.
Disembarked Marseilles, France 23.6.1916.
Apparently entered the trenches on the Monday of the 10th July 1916.
26 days in the field.
Herb is resting at Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France. Plot I Row K Grave 70.
Place of Association - Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Pritchard’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton and New Lambton Roll of Honor, Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor, Book of Gold, NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Pritchard gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their son Herb for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-32. 41.
Older brother Rupert Charles (born about 1881, Gordon, Victoria, miner from Cardiff, via Collie, Western Australia, married, enlisted 7.10.1916, 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company, Reg No-6837, wounded in action - 9.4.1918 (gas), 4.10.1918 (gas), RTA 8.7.1919, died?) also served 1st A.I.F.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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