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AVERY, Harry
Personal Details
Service Number: | 467 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 1 Service
9 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 467, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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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)