Harry Joshua HATCH

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HATCH, Harry Joshua

Service Number:	3515
Enlisted:	23 August 1915, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nuriootpa, South Australia, 4 October 1897
Home Town:	Truro, Mid Murray, South Australia
Schooling:	Truro Public School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, France, 21 August 1916, aged 18 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Truro War Memorial, Truro and District Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

23 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
12 Jan 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3515, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
12 Jan 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3515, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide
28 Feb 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3515, 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
23 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3515, 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
Date unknown:	Involvement 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

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Biography

"LATE PTE. H. HATCH

TRURO, October 21.— The flags were flying half-mast on Thursday, when the news came through that Pte. Harry Hatch had been reported killed in action. A few weeks ago his father received word that his son had heen missing since August 23. Pte. Hatch was born at Truro, and was educated at the public school. He enlisted shortly after his eighteenth birthday, and went to the front early in the year. After spending some time in Egypt, he went to France, and was in some severe engagements there. Mr. Hatch, has two other sons' serving at the front - Lce.-Cpl. J. J. Hatch and Pte W. Roy Hatch. The latter has been on service all through the campaign, having been twice wounded at Gallipoli, and recently was invalided to England. He came out of hospital a few weeks ago." - from the Adelaide Observer 28 Oct 1916 (nla.gov.au)

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