LARKIN, Herbert Vincent
| Service Number: | 4383 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Bunbury, Western Australia , September 1885 |
| Home Town: | Boulder, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Bunbury State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Contractor |
| Died: | Measles & Broncho Pneumonia, Isolation Hospital, Brimstone Bottom, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, 10 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Tidworth Military Cemetery, England Australian, Roman Catholic, Grave No. 40 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moora WWI Honour Wall |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 4383, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 1 Jun 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4383, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4383, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4383, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle | |
| 1 Jun 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4383, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle | |
| 10 Aug 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4383, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4383 awm_unit: 6th Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1916-08-10 |
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The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 10th August…… Herbert Vincent Larkin was born at Bunbury, Western Australia in 1885. His father – Thomas Larkin died on 20th August, 1908 in Bunbury, Western Australia.
Herbert Vincent Larkin enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 15th January, 1916 as a 31 year old, single, Contractor from Boulder, Western Australia (as listed on Embarkation Roll, however his address was listed as Winchester, Midland Railway, W.A.).
On 1st June, 1916 Sapper Herbert Vincent Larkin, Service number 4383, embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on HMAT Warilda (A69) with the Mining Corps - No. 6 Tunnelling Company & disembarked at Plymouth, England on 11th July, 1916.
Reinforcements were only given basic training in Australia. Training was completed in training units in England. Some of these were located in the Salisbury Plain & surrounding areas in the county of Wiltshire.
6th Tunnelling Company – Training in England:
The new quarters in Perham Downs, Salisbury Plains were excellently appointed but in spite of this measles broke out in a neighbouring unit and spread to this Company causing a certain proportion to be quarantined from August 7th onwards.
No rifles and few tools being available at Perham Downs very little technical training was carried out.
The sojourn in England however allowed the men to become physically fit after the long sea voyage and to become acclimatised to far more rigorous weather than that to which they were accustomed.
They also had ample opportunities of seeing and hearing trench mortars at work both by night and by day, and acquiring familiarity there with.
General leave was granted in England on two occasions firstly for thirty-six hours on August 2nd and again for 4 days on August 21st.
(6th Tunnelling Company – Training in England information from Donna Baldey – www.tunnellers.net)
Sapper Herbert Vincent Larkin died on 10th August, 1916 at Isolation Hospital, Brimstone Bottom, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England from Measles & Broncho Pneumonia.
He was buried in Tidworth Military Cemetery, Wiltshire, England where 172 other WW1 Australian War Graves are located.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/l---m.html
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