EMERY, Harold Ernest
| Service Number: | 3540 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Upper Norwood, London, England, June 1897 |
| Home Town: | St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | L.C.C. Woodland Road also Goodick Road, H.G. Dulwich, England |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Wounds, Military Hospital, Chatham, England, 28 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Southend-on-Sea Cemetery, Essex, England Grave reference: E. 3439., |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3540, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3540, 8th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3540, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Adelaide | |
| 18 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3540, 59th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), GSW to both arms, then gas gangreen DOW England | |
| 28 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 3540, 59th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3540 awm_unit: 59th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-28 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Service Number 3540, 59th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 19 and the son of Edwin and Priscilla Louisa Emery of 35 Argyle St., St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.
Death registered in Rochford, Essex, then the registration district for Southend-on-Sea.
Deaths Sep 1916 Emery Harold E 19 Rochford 4a 566
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 28th July…… Harold Ernest Emery was born at Upper Norwood, London, England in 1897.
According to information supplied by his mother for the Roll of Honour, Harold Emery arrived in Australia when he was 15 years old, arriving in Victoria on 2nd December, 1912 with his mother & 4 brothers, His father had arrived in Melbourne on 4th May, 1912.
Harold Ernest Emery enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 18th July, 1915 as a 19 year old, single, Grocer from 35 Argyle Street, St. Kilda, Victoria.
Private Emery, Service number 3540, embarked from Adelaide, South Australia on HMAT Nestor (A71) on 11th October, 1915 with the 8th Infantry Battalion, 11th Reinforcements.
He was taken on strength of 8th Battalion on 7th January, 1916 at Tel-el-Kebir.
On 15th March, 1916 Private Emery was transferred to 59th Battalion. He embarked from Alexandria on Troopship Kinfauns Castle on 18th June, 1916 to join B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). He disembarked at Marseilles, France on 29th June, 1916.
Private Harold Ernest Emery was wounded in action in France on 19th July, 1916. He was admitted to No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station on 20th July, 1916 with G.S.W. (gunshot wound/s) to shoulder then transferred to Ambulance Train on 21st July, 1916. Private Emery was admitted to 8th Stationary Hospital at Wimereux on 21st July, 1916 with GSW to right arm. He embarked for England from Boulogne, France on 23rd July, 1916 on Hospital Ship St. Denis.
On 24th July, 1916 Private Emery was admitted to H.M. Queen Mary’s Royal Naval Hospital (affiliated to Chatham), South-end-on-Sea. The Hospital Admissions form recorded “Gunshot wd rt arm, Fract. Humerus. Gas gangrene, septicaemia. Death.”
Private Harold Ernest Emery died at 5.25 pm on 28th July, 1916 at Military Hospital, Chatham, England from wounds received in action in France – G.S.W. (gunshot wounds) to both arms.
He was buried in Municipal Cemetery, Sultan Road, Southend.
His father was advised on 19th August, 1919 that the body of his son had been exhumed & re-interred in Separate Single Grave No. 3439 in Sutton Road Cemetery, Southend-on-Sea, England.
There are 7 WW1 Australian War Graves in Sutton Road Cemetery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/southend-on-sea...
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