GUY, Harry Charles
| Service Number: | 401 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ringwood, Hampshire, England., 26 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | National School, Ringwood. Hampshire, England. |
| Occupation: | Farmer. |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 17) |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 401, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 401, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 401, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 401, 2nd Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, KIA during charge at Lone Pine |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Jun 1892 Guy Harry Charles Ringwood 2b 676.
Emigrated aged 20.
He was 23 and the son of Fred and Elizabeth Guy, of 50, Bagunne Rd., Upper Kingston, Ringwood, Hants.
He is one of two Australian soldiers of the Great War commemorated on the Ringwood War Memorial. Here his initials are shown as H.G.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
There is a Harry C. Guy [possibly Harold Courtney GUY, but it could also be Harry Charles GUY] remembered on the war memorial situated in grounds of St Pauls Church, Bisterne, a hamlet to the south of Ringwood on the road to Christchurch in the Avon Valley.
Harold Courtney Guy was a Private, Service Number 24889, of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Died 23rd July 1917. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Guy, of New Road, Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight. Buried in ARTILLERY WOOD CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot X. Row A. Grave 15.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Don Palmer on Family Search
Private Harry Charles GUY, 401
Biography:
Harry emigrated to Australia in 1912 when he was 20 years old. He had until then worked with his father in Ringwood, Hampshire on the family small holding at Halls Farm then moved to Bagnum Farm, Crow, Ringwood with his family. He sailed on the SS Geelong on 17 October 1912 from Tilbury on the Thames estuary. His father accompanied him to the dockside. The ship called at Capetown, Adelaide, Melbourne, arriving Sydney on 8 December 1912. Harry wrote to his parents from each of these ports of call and continued to correspond with his parents and nine sisters on a regular basis, usually every week, while he remained for the following 23 weeks in Australia. These original letters and others from him after leaving Australia, about 110 letters, remain in the possession of Stephen Wright, Stanswood Farm, Fawley, Southampton, UK. Full copies are in the possession of Allan Hubbard, Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.
When Harry first arrived in Sydney, after spending two days seeing the sights, he first went to work on a fruit farm for Mr Rybak, Sante, Brush Road, Eastwood, some 15 miles out of Sydney. The orchards, with oranges, peaches, lemons, bananas, had only been established three years and although he was very comfortable and well fed, he found it too small and moved to a dairy farm nearby in North Road, Eastwood. The farmer was a Mr Watts who kept 28 milking cows and retailed the milk in the locality. Harry and two other men milked the cows twice daily and delivered by pony cart twice a day. He earned 25 shillings per week until the dairy was closed due to lack of funds for upkeep (250 pounds). Harry met a Mr Watts in Sydney who said his son, Sydney Hubbard, needed a farm hand on his farm in Ardlethan, 12 hours by train, SW of Sydney. Wedonga was the property name, 2 mi out of Ardlethan. Harry started there in June 1913. He knew how to handle horses and soon adapted to Australian wheat and sheep, living with Syd in a small hut on the property. Three to four hundred acres of wheat were done with two men and five horses.
Upon the outbreak of WW I, Harry and Syd both joined the Australian Armed Forces, Syd, having leased his farm to a neighbor. Syd was initially billeted on Randwick racecourse near Sydney, with Harry. Syd was eventually posted to England with instructions to visit Harry's sisters at Bagnum and in particular to pay attention to Caroline. He did so and being billeted in Wiltshire, he could travel to Ringwood fairly easily. He eventually married Caroline and they both returned to Australia after the war.
Harry was posted to Cairo, Egypt, remaining there ten months before moving to the Dardanelles and landing on Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April 1915 with the Anzac Brigade. His letters, short notes and cards hint at the dreadfully tragic conditions while fighting the Turks. There is an independent account from a friend, Ray Salmon, who was wounded on 27 April 1925, of how Harry carried him and another friend down to the beach to be evacuated back to England. Harry was killed in action on 6 August 1915 while taking part in the famous Lone Pine Charge across open ground towards the Turkish trenches
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