SYKES, Henry Joseph
| Service Number: | 651 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 October 1916, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Waterloo, NSW, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Willoughby, Willoughby, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Fort Street School |
| Occupation: | Publisher - Sydney Morning Herald |
| Died: | Fall and striking head, Sydney Hospital, Sydney NSW, 19 July 1924 |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail Record of War Service |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 651, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 651, 5th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 651, 5th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Husband of Irene May SYKES
Of Oakville Rd, Willoughby, NSW
Henry was the only son of the late Mr. F W Sykes, of North Sydney and was born at Waterloo in January, 1888. He had beed educated at the Fort Street School and entered the clerical department of the Sydney Morning Herald at the age of 15 years.
In August 1916, he enlisted as a Private in the Machine Gun Reinforcements for the 5th Company, and went to France. He took part in the fighting in the Ypres sector till he was gassed. Upon his recovery he returned to France, and was in the actions around Villers Bretonneux, and was in the trenches til the signing of the armistice. Then we went to Belgium, returning to Australia in the early part of 1919.
FALL ON FOOTPATH.
The City Coroner (Mr. J. Jamieson) yesterday returned a verdict that Henry Joseph Sykes, who died at Sydney Hospital on July 19, met his death accidentally by falling down, textand striking his head on the footpath in Pitt street.
The funeral took place at the Northern Suburbs Cemetery yesterday of the late Mr. Henry Joseph Sykes, who had been in the service of the "Sydney Morning Herald" for many years, and who latterly had been in charge of the firms bulk stores at Woolloomooloo. Tho Rev. L. Hamilton officiated at the grave-side, where there were assembled a number of returned soldiers as a last tribute to their former comrade of tho trenches, the late Mr. Sykes having seen considerable active service during the war.
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