TARRANT, Henry Giles
| Service Number: | NX12074 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 13 April 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia , 31 August 1901 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Lorry Driver/Storeman |
| Died: | Injuries suffered in a fall at sea on HM Transport J33 on the 14t/2/41, Durban, South Africa, 17 February 1941, aged 39 years |
| Cemetery: |
Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery, South Africa F 21 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket Rozelle Railways and Tramways Stores Branch WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sapper, NX12074 | |
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| 13 Apr 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX12074 |
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SAPPER HENRY GILES TARRANT NX12074 2/AIF
Henry Tarrant was born in Narrabri NSW on the 31st of August 1901, the tenth of twelve children of George and Lillian Tarrant. Ten of Henry’s eleven siblings would reach adulthood, a remarkable feat in that era. Henry’s elder brother Valentine Tarrant 1810 served in the AIF in the Great War earning a Military Medal.
Henry completed his Compulsory Military Service in the late 1920s and he worked in the 1930s as a Lorry driver and as a storeman before joining the AIF on the 13th of April 1940. Henry was a single man who initially nominated his sister Mina and later his brother Valentine as his Next of Kin. As he was overage to serve in the infantry, he was allotted to a Railway Construction Unit which embarked for the UK in May 1940.
In January 1941 his unit embarked on HM Transport J33, presumably bound for the Middle East. On the 14th of February, off South Africa Henry fell down a companionway ladder onboard the ship and was rendered semi-comatose, with signs of concussion. He was landed to hospital in Durban and passed away on the 17th of February 1941.
Henry Giles Tarrant is buried in the CWGC plot in the Stellawood Cemetery in Durban South Africa.
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