Herbert Richard BARRETT

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BARRETT, Herbert Richard

Service Numbers:	10076, 836
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 29 September 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Leichhardt War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

9 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 10076, 8th Field Ambulance, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
9 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 10076, 8th Field Ambulance, HMAT Nestor, Sydney
29 Sep 1917:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 836, 30th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 836 awm_unit: 30th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-09-29

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

No Railway Record card can be located for Herbert Richard BARRETT. (Service Number 836) There are however entries in the NSW Government Gazette at 31 December 1914 of a Herbert E Barrett as a casual tram conductor at Rozelle. According to the 1917 Annual Report, on 20 October 1916 Herbert Barrett was given a permanent appointment as a tram conductor and by 31 December he was ‘Serving with the AIF’. He is recorded in the 1918 Annual Report as having ‘Died on Active Service’ on 29 September 1918.
Herbert Barrett had been born in Chippendale in February 1893. He enlisted at Liverpool in July 1915. He embarked from Sydney per HMAT ‘Beltana’ on 9 November 1915. He reached Suez just before the end of the Gallipoli campaign and after further training in Egypt travelled through Marseilles to France in the middle of 1916. He was appointed Lance Corporal in July 1917 and died in action two months later.
He was buried in a shell hole, with a cross erected on the spot about 2,500 yards due S of Zonnebeke and about 2,500 yards due E of Westhoek. The site was subsequently lost, and Barrett’s name is recorded on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
(NAA B2455-3052598)

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