Harry AVERY

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Service Number:	467
Enlisted:	9 September 1914, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	45th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Gore Hill, New South Wales, 11 November 1895
Home Town:	Gore Hill, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling:	Gore Hill State School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds (POW of Germany), France, 25 May 1918, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension Plot 1V, Row K, Grave 8
Memorials:	Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial (Ballarat), Australian War Memorial, Roll of Honour

9 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, Sydney, New South Wales
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, 'ANZAC' / Gallipoli
23 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, 'ANZAC' / Gallipoli, GSW (cheek)
5 Apr 1918:	Imprisoned Villers-Bretonneux
5 Apr 1918:	Wounded Private, SN 467, 45th Infantry Battalion, Villers-Bretonneux, GSW (head)
25 May 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, 45th Infantry Battalion

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8 Battalion

Rank - Private

Also served in the Citizen Military Forces

Died in Feldlazarett (German field hospital) from an earlier GSW to the head (Prisoner of War of Germany)