
RICHARDS, Bernhard Medhurst
Service Number: | 7122 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Hastings, Sussex, England, 1 August 1893 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Railway Porter |
Died: | Pulmonary tuberculosis, Shuna Red Cross Home, Leura, New South Wales, Australia, 30 September 1919, aged 26 years |
Cemetery: |
Katoomba General Cemetery |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
28 Feb 1918: | Involvement Private, 7122, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
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28 Feb 1918: | Embarked Private, 7122, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Bernard Medhurst RICHARDS (Service Number 7122) was born in Hastings, Sussex, England, on 1st August 1893. He came to NSW in about 1913 and joined the NSW Government Railways as a temporary porter at Junee in January 1917. He was dispensed with in May 1917. He re-joined a month later and was made permanent in August 1917. In January 1918 hewas released from duty to enlist in the AIF at Temora. He gave his address as care of the Post Office at Barellan, and his next of kin as his mother in Sussex.
He was allotted to the 21st Reinforcements of the 19th Battalion. He was embarked from Melbourne in February 1918 and landed in England in April. After training there he was sent to France in July and ‘taken on strength’ by his Battalion The following month he was sent to hospital first in France and then in England with dysentery. He was transferred to a convalescent depot in November. Iin December (after the war had effectively ended) he was Absent Without Leave for six days,. He was punished by forfeiture of 10 days’ pay, so losing 16 days’ pay in all.
An X-ray taken in November 1918 showed pulmonary tuberculosis, and he was returned to Australia in January 1919, landing in March.
He died at ‘Shuna’ Red Cross Home, Leura, on 30th September 1919, the cause of death being pulmonary tuberculosis of 1½ years duration, and exhaustion. He was buried in the Church of England Cemetery, Katoomba.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.