Oscar Herbert HART

HART, Oscar Herbert

Service Number: 2176
Enlisted: 11 May 1915, 6th reinforcements
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 4th Infantry Battalion
Born: Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 27 November 1888
Home Town: Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling: Wollongong Superior Public School , New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 23 July 1916, aged 27 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

11 May 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2176, 4th Infantry Battalion, 6th reinforcements
16 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 2176, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: ''
16 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 2176, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney
2 Aug 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2176, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Gunshot wound to hand. Later killed in action in Europe.
23 Mar 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2176, 4th Infantry Battalion, Embarked at Alexandria for the Western Front.

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Oscar Herbert Hart was born in Wollongong, NSW. He had five brothers and one sister. He died on July 23, 1916, in Pozières, France, at the age of 27, and his remains were never found. He had been wounded at Lone Pine on 8th August, 1915. Hart suffered a gunshot wound to the hand and was evacuated to Egypt. He was on light duties at Helouan from the 22nd August 1915. Oscar rejoined the 4th Battalion on the 1st March 1916. He was the youngest son of the late “Sgt Major Joseph Hart who was for 30 years connected with Waltons of A.G.A." Details from his sister on his Roll of Honour form.

 

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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Oscar Herbert Hart (Service Number 2176) was born in Wollongong. He enlisted on 11th May 1915 at Liverpool giving his sister as his next of kin. He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Karoola’ on 16th June 1915 and reached Gallipoli via Egypt on 4th August. His career at the Dardanelles lasted just three days as he received a gunshot wound to his hand on 7th August and was evacuated aboard HMS ‘Caledonian’ to the 1st Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis and then to Helouan Convalescent Camp. By the end of the month Hart was discharged, fit for light duties.

He re-joined the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion at Serapeum in March 1916 as by then the Gallipoli Campaign was over and the troops had been assembled in Egypt.  He embarked at Alexandria for passage via Marseilles (France) to the Western Front on 23rd March 1916, arriving on 30th March. He was soon admitted to the British Isolation Hospital with mumps. He recovered from this disease by May and re-joined his Battalion on 7th May.

He was killed in action on 13th July 1916. 

He has no known grave, and is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial in Picardie.

- basd on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

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