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FARRELLY, Hugh
| Service Number: | 7105 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 November 1916, at Oaklands |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia , May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Brighton, Holdfast Bay, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electrical Wireman |
| Died: | Circumstances of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Derrick Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7105, 10th Infantry Battalion, at Oaklands | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 7105, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 7105, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide | |
| 30 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7105, 10th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918 | |
| 26 Jul 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7105, 10th Infantry Battalion, Merris (France) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Saint Ignatius' College
Hugh Farrelly was born in 1894 and was 22 years and 6 months old when he enlisted to be a soldier in World War 1. He was 5 feet tall, had a fair complexion with blue eyes and fair hair and weighed 64kg before he began his services in World War 1. He lived on 5 Surf Street in Brighton/Glenelg. His occupation was an Electric Wireman before the war. He lived with his mother Catherine Farrelly. On the 21st of November 1916 he embarked from Adelaide, his regimental number is 7105 and was part of the 10th Battalion. Hugh boarded the HMAT A35 Berrima from Adelaide.
He arrived in England in February 1917 and spent some time in hospital with mumps. After more time training he went to France and joined the 10th Battalion in the field on 28 May 1917. He was hospitalised again with mumps in mid-September (meaning he missed most of the fighting at Ypres) and only returned to action on 28 April 1918. He was then wounded in action on 28 May, in the back. He returned to action on 20 June and was then wounded for the second time on 26 July. This was severe shrapnel wound, to the eye and left arm, but after several months recuperation he returned to duty in late November - after the Armistice. He was then accidentally injured in the right arm in early January 1919.
Farrelly left England for Australia on 10 April 1919 and was discharged from the AIF in Adelaide on 4 July 1919.