IRWIN, Hubert Joseph
| Service Number: | 1706 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 January 1916, Enlisted at Orange. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 21 August 1898 |
| Home Town: | Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Telegraph Operator |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 21 February 1917, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bancourt British Cemetery VIII E 11 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Orange Cenotaph, Orange Patrician Brothers' Old Boys Union Great War Roll of Honor, Orange WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1706, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Orange. | |
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| 14 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 1706, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 1706, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Hubert [also known as Herbert] Joseph IRWIN (Service Number 1706) was born on 21st August 1898 at Orange. He worked with the NSW Railways was as a probationer, commencing on 9th February 1914 in the Electrical Branch at Orange. His declared ‘trade of calling’ on his subsequent Attestation Papers as ‘Telegraph Operator’.
He enlisted at Orange on 17th January 1916. Being unmarried he gave his mother as his next of kin.
Irwin left Australia from Sydney on 14th April 1916 aboard HMAT ‘Ceramic’. After a period in Egypt, he embarked at Alexandria on 6th June and reached Plymouth (England) ten days later. Upon arrival in England he was hospitalised at Bulford with venereal disease for which treatment required 55 days. It was not until mid-August that he was taken on the strength of No. 1 Command Depot and then the 12th Training Battalion. In November he was sick again and he did not reach France and the 45th Australian Infantry Battalion until 18th January 1917.
He was killed in action on 21st February 1917. He was initially buried about three miles North North West of Croissilles. In the rationalisation of cemeteries after the war his remains were exhumed and re-interred at the Bancourt British Cemetery 1¾ miles East of Bapaume.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.