Herbert Ernest HARRIS

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Service Number:	296
Enlisted:	18 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nymagee, New South Wales, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Nymagee, Cobar, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 17, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

18 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 296, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
18 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 296, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
18 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 296, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney

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Next of kin given as his grandmother Mrs J M Duggan of Nymagee, NSW.

Son of William Harris of North Sydney, NSW

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal issued to his aunt Hannah Bodmer

Also served in the Tasmanian Rangers for about 3 years