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YARROW, Harold Sydney John
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2929 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 June 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Adelaide, SA, 29 June 1889 |
| Home Town: | Parkside, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Grote Street Public School, Adelaide |
| Occupation: | Pastry Cook |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, France, 1 August 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 7 17 23 25 27 29 31, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Gilles Street Primary School WW1 Honour Roll (New), Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide St John's Anglican Church Memorial Tablet, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Unley Arch of Remembrance, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2929, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 2929, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 2929, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide |
Personal Stories
Leaves a widow and one child
The Advertiser Tuesday 21 August 1917 page 6
THE LATE PRIVATE YARROW.
Mrs. Stella R. Yarrow, 3, High-street,Glenelg, has been notified that her husband, Private Harold S. .T. Yarrow, of the 43rd Battalion, was killed in action in France on July 31. He left a widow and one child.
Submitted 22 January 2016 by Faithe Jones
Biography
30 November 1911 - Harold married Stella Rose Jaffrey in the Christian Chapel, Adelaide. Following Harold's death Stella Re-married in 1918 to Charles Arthur Dugan
24 December 1916 - To hospital while at sea
28 December 1916 - Discharged from hospital
2 April 1917 - To hospital, Influenza
10 April 1917 - Discharged to duty
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
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