BRABNER, Harold James
| Service Number: | 274 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 September 1914, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia |
| Last Rank: | Company Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 25 May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Bellevue, Swan, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Bellevue State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 17 September 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bellevue Roll of Honor, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Midland Railway Workshops Soldiers Memorial, Midland WW1 Clock Tower & Town Hall Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 274, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 274, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 274, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 274, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 11 Nov 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 274, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , GSW (right leg and hand) | |
| 17 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 274, 11th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 274 awm_unit: 11 Battalion awm_rank: Company Sergeant Major awm_died_date: 1917-09-17 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Trevor
'W.O. Harold James Brabner (274), 11th Battalion, was born at Warracknabeal, Victoria, and educated at Bellevue, W.A. He enlisted at Perth in August, 1914, and sailed for Egypt with the 11th Battalion on the 30th October, 1914. He arrived there on the 6th December, 1914, and left for Lemnos Island on the 28th February, 1915. He then went on to Gallipoli where he took part in the Landing, and remained there until the evacuation. He returned to Egypt and then crossed to France, where he was wounded twice and was promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer. He was in action at Pozieres, Flers, Armentieres, Bullecourt and Passchendaele, and was killed in action on the 17th September, 1917.' from Australia's Fighting Sons of Empire
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Harold James BRABNER was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1894
His parents were James BRABNER and Georgina SHERWELL
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His brother George Alexander BRABNER (SN 7442) was Killed in Action in 1918
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