Albert HARRIS MM and Bar

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HARRIS, Albert

Service Number:	705
Enlisted:	6 April 1915, Melbourne. Vic.
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	15th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 10 May 1896
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bedstead Maker
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 3 July 1951, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Kendrew Oval, Row 22, Site 25
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

6 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 705, 21st Infantry Battalion, Melbourne. Vic.
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 705, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 705, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
19 Mar 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, 705, 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery, Discharged in Melbourne 24/03/1919 (Medically Unfit).
24 Mar 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 705, 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery, At the time of discharge, Albert Harris had been promoted to Corporal. This was his final rank before being discharged medically unfit.
Date unknown:	Honoured Military Medal and bar, Awarded 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal, Military Medal and Bar. Areas of Service: Egypt, Gallipoli, France and Belgium with the 21 Bn, 58 Bn and Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery. Promoted to Corporal at time of Discharge 1919.
Date unknown:	Honoured Military Medal and bar, On 16 July 1916 Albert Harris transferred to the Australian 15th Light Trench Mortar Battery. On 31 October 1917 Lance Corporal Harris was awarded the Military Medal which was promulgated in the London Gazette Supplement 30431 on 14 December 1917. On 24 January 2019 it was announced that Lance Corporal Albert Harris had received a bar to his Military Medal. This was promulgated in the London Gazette 6th Supplement No. 31142 on 24 January 1919 and appeared in the Commonwealth Australian Gazette No. 61 of 23 May 1919.

Family

Albert's parents were James Henry Bishop Harris and Harriett Brittain. He had three brothers - Frederick Porteen Bishop Harris, Charles Victor Harris and James Henry Harris. He also had one sister, Elsie Gertrude Bishop Harris. His eldest brother Frederick also served in WW1 as a 1st Air Mechanic with C Flight, 4th Australian Flying Corps (Service number 1069).

Submitted 1 February 2022 by Lindsay Frank Attrill

Marriage

Albert Harris is in fact Albert Cephus Harris but at the time of his attestment on 6th April 1915 dropped his middle name, He was married in 1924 at Avenel in Victoria to Margaret Elizabeth Callander who was born in Numurkah, Victoria in 1897.

Submitted 1 February 2022 by Lindsay Frank Attrill

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