NEWBERY, Henry Jackson
| Service Number: | 5715 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 January 1916, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, September 1888 |
| Home Town: | Stanmore, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Painter at Eveleigh Railway Workshops |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 21 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery Plot IV, Row C, Grave No. 11 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5715, 3rd Infantry Training Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 3 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 5715, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 5715, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney | |
| 16 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5715, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wounds to neck, thigh and left leg. Died in hospital on 21st April. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
The name Henry Jackson Newbury (alternative spelling) is included on both the Sydney Station Honour Board and the 1921 Honour Roll, which also records him as being part of the 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion.
He was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales in September 1888 and spent five years as an apprentice painter to his father in Wales before emigrating to Australia. In 1914 he is listed in the Government Gazette, as Newbury, working at Eveleigh as a painters’ assistant.
He enlisted at Liverpool on 16th January 1916. On his Attestation Papers he declares himself to be not married, but this is later corrected to name a woman whose address is given as Dorset.
He left Sydney on 3rd June 1916, on HMAT ‘Kyarra’, reaching Plymouth two months later. In September he was in France with the 1st Training Battalion and in November was taken on the strength of the 3rd Battalion.
He received gunshot wounds to his neck, thigh and left leg in action on 16th April 1917, was transferred to hospital but died there on 21st April. He is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.