HARVEY, Jack
| Service Number: | 1765 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 February 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wellington, NSW, 20 February 1897 |
| Home Town: | Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Sp. Mem. C. 115. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1765, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 10 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1765, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1765, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
John (Jack) HARVEY (Service Number 1765) was born on 20th February 1897 at Wellington NSW. He began work with the NSW Railways on 12th May 1914. He was a junior porter in the Traffic Branch in the Sydney District. On 24th August the same year he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces. Harvey enlisted on 2nd February 1915 at Liverpool. He gave his age as 22 years when he in fact was still 17. Both his parents were dead and his next of kin was an uncle, Hugh Murphy, for whom he could not give an address. He signed his name as Jack Harvey.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Argyllshire’ on 10th April 1915 He reached Gallipoli on 26th May.
He was posted missing in action between 6th and 9th August – the period of the infamous Battle of Lone Pine. Soon after the battle he was confirmed dead by the location of his body. He was buried in an area which later became the Lone Pine Cemetery. However, by the time that the cemetery was properly established after the war the exact location of individual graves could not be confirmed and headstones are inscribed ‘Believed to be buried in this cemetery. Actual graves unknown.’
Hugh Murphy, the uncle, was eventually located at Ruthven Street, Waverley. However, ultimately the recipient of Harvey’s service medals and the person who chose the 66 characters of the inscription on his grave, was his half-sister, Mrs F E Anthony of Reid Avenue, Lithgow.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board