Bernard Agrippa LAVERICK

LAVERICK, Bernard Agrippa

Service Number: 3361
Enlisted: 9 October 1915, Place of Enlistment, Townsville, Queensland.
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 31st Infantry Battalion
Born: Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, 1891
Home Town: Innisfail, Cassowary Coast, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 26 September 1917
Cemetery: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
Grave LXIV. E. 15., Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Innisfail Cenotaph
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World War 1 Service

9 Oct 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3361, 31st Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Townsville, Queensland.
4 May 1916: Involvement Private, 3361, 31st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: Incorrectly recorded as Bernard Laverack on the original roll
4 May 1916: Embarked Private, 3361, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Brisbane

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Births Jun 1891   Laverick Bernard Agrippa Ashborne 7b 665

Enlisted in the Australian Infantry and returned to Europe in 1916.

His younger brother, Ordinary Seaman Charles Edward Laverick, aged 18, was also a casualty of the Great War. He served with the Royal Navy, Service No. J/62740 (PO.) He died 22/12/1916 and was interred in Compton (All Saints) Churchyard.

The brothers are remembered on the Compton and Shawford war memorial.

They were sons of John Albert and Elizabeth Laverick of Otterbourne Road, Compton.

 

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