KELLY, Harry
| Service Number: | 3071 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 30 June 1888 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Patrician Brothers. Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Ironmonger |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 6 April 1918, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux |
| Memorials: | Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd. Pictorial HR, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Spencer Public School Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3071, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
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| 8 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3071, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Sydney | |
| 6 Apr 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 3071, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3071 awm_unit: 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Mike Kelly
One of eight children of Thomas Kelly and Sarah Kelly. Educated at St. Josephs Schools and Christian Brothers School at Bathurst. Of quiet disposition, never known to raise a quarrel. Quietly determined when he enlisted to see it through, despite all hardships. Fond of reading and study, had an excellent character.
Upon leaving school was employed by Messrs. Preen and Co. before joining the ironmongery (hardware) department of Messrs. Anthony Hordern in Sydney. He had been two years and nine months on active service in France.
Harry Kelly was killed in Corbie (about 3 miles north of Villers-Bretonneux) during a conflict known as the First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux.
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