HARRIS, Joseph Patrick
Service Number: | 3990 |
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Enlisted: | 13 July 1915, Maryborough, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Talbot, Victoria, Australia, 4 September 1873 |
Home Town: | Maryborough, Central Goldfields, Victoria |
Schooling: | Ballarat Orphanage School, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 25 July 1916, aged 42 years |
Cemetery: |
Puchevillers British Cemetery, France Plot II, Row B, Grave 11 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Carisbrook War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
13 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3990, 8th Infantry Battalion, Maryborough, Vic. | |
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23 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3990, 8th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
23 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3990, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Adelaide | |
25 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3990, 8th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , GSW to the chest. Evacuated to 44th CCS, situated at Puchevillers, where he died of his wounds later the same day. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Pte 3990 Joseph Patrick Harris was born at Talbot on 4 September 1873. His father was Henry Walpole Harris. Both of Joseph's parents died when their children were young, and they were placed in the Ballarat Orphanage.
Enlisting as a 41 year old in Maryborough on 13 July 1915, he died of a gunshot wound to the chest on 25 July 1916, and was buried at Puchevillers Cemetery, France.
A tree was later planted for Joseph Patrick Harris in the Ballarat Orphanage's "Arthur Kenny Avenue of Honour".
Source: bih.federation.edu.au