DUXBURY, Herbert Arthur
| Service Number: | 5675 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia, 15 November 1897 |
| Home Town: | Rozelle, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway "shop boy" |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 6 February 1917, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 3 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 5675, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
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| 3 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 5675, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Herbert Arthur DUXBURY, (Service Number 5675) was born on 15 November 1897 at Rozelle. He began working for the NSW Railways as a shop boy at Eveleigh on 9 March 1914 and was still in that role when he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 13 December 1915, just after his 18th birthday, although on his Attestation Papers he stated his age as 19 years and 5 months, and his calling as ‘machinist’. He also claimed to have been apprenticed to Copeland and Waddell of Sydney. He was not married.
He left Australia through Sydney, aboard HMAT ‘Clan McGillivray’ on 3 May 1915 allotted to the 13th Australian Infantry Battalion.
Submitted 22 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Herbert Arthur DUXBURY (Service Number 5675) was born on 15th November 1897 at Rozelle. He began working for the NSW Railways as a shop boy at Eveleigh on 9th March 1914. He was still in that occupation when he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 13th December 1915, just after his 18th birthday. On his Attestation Papers he stated his age as 19 years and 5 months, and his occupation as ‘machinist’. He also claimed to have been apprenticed to Copeland and Waddell of Sydney. He was not married.
He left Australia from Sydney, aboard HMAT ‘Clan McGillivray’ on 3rd May 1915. He was allotted to the 13th Australian Infantry Battalion.
After further training in Egypt he embarked from Alexandria on the transport ‘Meganitic’ to England. From there he went to France. He was taken on the strength of his Battalion on 30th October. He received a gunshot wound to his right thigh and leg on 5th February 1917. He died of those wounds on 6th February.
He was buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery, 2¼ miles S.S.W. of Albert by Rev Peniston
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board