TANNER, Herbert Henry
| Service Number: | 3281 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Glenrowan, Wangaratta, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 9 August 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot XIX, Row F, Grave No. 4 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Oxley War Memorial, Wangaratta High School War Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3281, 24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 26 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3281, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
| 26 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3281, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board HMT Megantic | |
| 9 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 3281, 8th Infantry Battalion, Shell Wounds to skull - admitted to 7th Field Ambulance, where he died of wounds |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Herbert Henry Tanner (Service No:3281) enlisted in the AIF on 29 July 1915, and was a Private attached to 24th Infantry Battalion 7th Reinforcement when he embarked with his Unit on 26 November 1916 from Melbourne for Egypt on board HMAT A73 Commonwealth. On 20 March 1916, Private Tanner embarked from Alexandria bound for Marseilles on board HMT Megantic. By 1917 he was promoted to Corporal and attached to 8th Infantry Battalion. On 9 August 1918, Corporal Tanner was WiA at Rosieres - suffering Shell Wounds to his skull. Private Tinsley W.A stated 'I was at a CCS at La Motte near Warfusee and saw him lying dead on a stretcher. He had been in the hop over beyond Harbonieres' (AWM; Red Cross Society Files). Private Tanner was admitted to 7th Field Ambulance where he died of wounds, and was buried La Motte-au-Senterre Communal Cemetery - later exhumed and reburied at Villers Brettoneux Military Cemetery. Private Tanner's effects were returned to his mother - a metal cigarete case, pouch, cards, photos, compass, fountain pen and folder, a metal brooch and a note case. Older brother Walter (Lieutenant; Service No:4602) also served in WWI, and later in WWII.
Herbert was born in Traralgon, Victoria in 1895, second of three children of Henry Tanner (b1861 in Kyneton, Victoria) and his first wife Annabel Cranwell (nee Dunbar; b1859 at Mt Cottrell, Victoria). Henry (a Farmer) and Annabel (a Widow with a young daughter) married in 1892 in Blackwarry and lived in Traralgon, Ondit and Moyhu where Henry was a Farmer and Foreman of the Butter Factory.
Herbert was a Farmer at Hansonville via Glenrowan prior to enlisting in the AIF in 1915.