HERRON, Richard
| Service Numbers: | 1549, 1548 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria. Australia, 27 November 1886 |
| Home Town: | Busselton, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Guard |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Poziers, France, 29 July 1916, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Busselton Cenotaph Victoria Square, Busselton Rotary Park of Remembrance Memorial Walk, Fremantle Fallen Sailors & Soldiers Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 4 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1549, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 5 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1548, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1548, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Fremantle | |
| 4 Sep 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1548, 28th Infantry Battalion, Ex Gallipoli per HT Ivernia for Mudros | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 1549, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1549 awm_unit: 28 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-29 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Richard (Dick) was the second of three children of Joseph Kennedy Herron (born 1857 in Durham, England) and Margaret Wilson McLaren (born 1843 in Scotland). Joseph was a Mason's Labourer in Durham and immigrated in 1872 to Melbourne, Victoria. He was a Miner in Bendigo, Victoria when he married Margaret in 1883. Margaret's first husband (Henry Milne) had been killed in a Mining accident at Costerfield, Victoria in 1878. Joseph was injured in an accident at the Shennandoah Mine at Sandhurst in Victoria in 1888 and in 1898 Joseph and Margaret moved with their children to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
Dick was sixteen years of age when he started work as a Junior Porter for WA Government Railways at Coolgardie, WA in 1903. He worked in Perth as a Junior Porter and in 1909 was a Shunter at Midland Junction when he married Grace Cade (born 1890 in Cairns, QLD) at Midland Junction. Dick was a Railway Guard at Busselton, WA when he enlisted in the AIF in September 1915. He served as a Private (Service No:1548 (1549 in the Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Files) with 1/28th Infantry Battalion D Coy at Gallipoli and in France. Dick was at Pozieres on the Somme when he was reported MiA on 2 August 1916 and confirmed KiA by the Court of Inquiry on 4 January 1917. Private Turner stated 'I know Heron well. He enlisted in Bunbury WA, joined the Btn in Egypt ... I was told by his pal Pte HV Emery 28th Btn now in France - that Heron was killed by shell - he was very badly hit. It happened at Pozieres'. Dick's effects, forwarded to his wife Grace consisted of 'a Cap comforter, a pipe and 1 handkerchief' (National Archives Australia).
Grace remarried in Fremantle, WA in 1919 and moved to Melbourne, Victoria where she died in 1920.
Biography contributed by Joy Dalgleish
Husband of Grace Herron, Victoria Pde, Midland Junction, Western Australia
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