Herbert James BRAY

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Service Number:	1782
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hundred of Barunga, South Australia, 24 March 1895
Home Town:	Blyth, Wakefield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Baker
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 11 October 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Dochy Farm New British Cemetery Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moonta All Saint's Anglican Church Memorial Honour Roll, Moonta Corporation of The Town of Moonta Roll of Honour, Moonta Star of Moonta U.A.O.D. No. 66 Roll of Honor, Moonta War Memorial

12 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 1782, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
12 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 1782, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide
11 Oct 1917:	Involvement Corporal, 1782, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1782 awm_unit: 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-11

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1917 'Family Notices' The Journal 23 November, p. 2

For King and Country

Bray - Killed in Action 11th October 1917 Sgt Herbert James Bray of Moonta

Somewhere in France there's sacred spot

Tis a grave just newly made

and its sheltering one from perils and ills

With which life's battle is played

He has finished his part - we must still keep on

Trying like him to be brave

Our Sacrifice is in what we have lost

His was what he gave

And we think of his life - a duty done

Manly, unselfish and Brave

inseted by his loving cousin Myrtle Pratt