JARROTT, John Melbourne
| Service Number: | 5399 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916, Wangaratta, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moyhu, Victotoria, July 1897 |
| Home Town: | Myrrhee, Wangaratta, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Myrrhee Primary School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Natural causes (post-op), Albury, New South Wales, 24 January 1939 |
| Cemetery: |
Milawa Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Myrrhee HB1, Myrrhee State School Pictorial HB, Oxley War Memorial, Wangaratta and District Victory Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5399, Wangaratta, Victoria | |
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| 4 Apr 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5399, 8th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5399, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 21 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5399, 8th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
When JOHN MELBOURNE Jarrott was born in 1897 in Moyhu, Victoria, his father, Thomas, was 26 and his mother, Martha, was 29. He married ETHEL MARY BARRINGTON (1894-1931 - child birth) and they had one daughter together (Ethel May) who died in Wangaratta later in 1931. He then married Flora Miller Dunn (1900-?) in 1933 in Culcairn, New South Wales. He died in 1939 in Albury, New South Wales, at the age of 42.
When John Jarrott arrived in France, Lt Gerald Evans (also from Myrrhee) wrote to his brother Evan on 11/10/1916:
"Think I told you young Jarrott was with this Battalion now, poor kid, Tommy should have kept him on the crick for a couple more years, he is not developed enough for this game."
John Jarrott's brother Sgt William Thomas Jarrott was KIA on 8/6/1917
"...912 Sergeant (later Company Sergeant Major) William Thomas Jarrott, 37th Battalion of Wangaratta, Victoria. A teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Persic (A34) on 3 June 1916. It is believed, he was killed in action on 7 June 1917 during the battle of Messines, Belgium, aged 21. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium." - Source AWM
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