JARVIS, Richard George
| Service Number: | 161 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Brighton, Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Longford, Tasmania, Australia, 7 November 1893 |
| Home Town: | New Norfolk, Derwent Valley, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Panel 35 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, New Norfolk War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 161, 12th Infantry Battalion, Brighton, Tasmania | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 161, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 161, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
161 Private Richard George Jarvis enlisted during August 1914 and was an original member of the 12th Battalion. He landed at Anzac Cove in Turkey on the 25th April and was killed in action very shortly afterwards. A stretcher bearer said that Jarvis was killed by a shell at around 10 p.m. on Sunday 25 April 1915. The bearer said that Jarvis had been “fearfully smashed” by the shell and his body was placed in a hole which served as a dugout. His body was lost and his parents in New Norfolk in Tasmania were informed he was missing. During August 1915, his mother, Afhild Jarvis wrote to the army saying that she had heard from a returned man that Jarvis had been seen lying wounded in a hospital in Alexandria in Egypt. It would be June 1916 before the AIF declared Jarvis officially killed in action. It was November 1916 when the Jarvis family received the telegram confirming his death, it also included the words “Their Majesties the King and Queen, the Commonwealth Government; as well as the District Commandant, convey deepest sympathy in loss sustained by them and Army.”
During late 1921 the identity disc belonging to Richard Jarvis was discovered by the Australian Graves Registration Unit working at Gallipoli. The disc was forwarded to his mother in 1919.
Brothers, 1612 Pte Henry Thomas Jarvis MID, 52nd Battalion AIF, killed in action Mouquet Farm 4 September 1916.
4524 Pte Alfred Edward Jarvis 52nd Battalion AIF, returned to Australia, 27 August 1917.
984 Pte Roy William Jarvis MM, 40th Battalion AIF, returned to Australia, 26 July 1919.
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