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John Bede AVERY, (Service Number 3005A) was born on 18 August 1888 at Camperdown, Sydney. His whole career with the NSWGR&T was spent as a casual tram conductor in Sydney. He had begun work in March 1910 and was released for duty to join the Expeditionary Force on 6 September 1915, though his military records show that he had enlisted a month earlier.
Avery embarked from Sydney on HMAT ‘Suevic’ on 23 December 1915, and upon reaching Egypt joined the 58th Battalion, but soon transferred into the artillery where he gained the rank ‘gunner’ rather than ‘Private’ and was moved from battery to battery in France. He had a number of bouts of sickness and hospitalisation until about November 1917.
He was killed in action on 24 April 1918, and at that stage was a gunner with the 14th Field Artillery Brigade. He was buried in Bonnay British Cemetery, 1¾ miles N of Corbie.
(NAA B2455-3041994)