CRITTENDEN, Harrie Granville
| Service Number: | 33617 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 December 1916, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | Medium Trench Mortar Batteries |
| Born: | Taree, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St Aloysius's Convent School Dubbo |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 3 November 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
The Huts Cemetery, Dickebusch, Belgium (Plot XIV, Row A, Grave II) |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Commonwealth Bank of Australia Great War Honour Roll, Wagga Wagga Cenotaph, Wagga Wagga St. John's Club Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 33617, Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 33617, Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Gunner, 33617, Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John Charles and Clara CRITTENDEN, Fox Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW -- later of "Epsom," Chandos St., St. Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales.
TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Crittenden of Fox-street, Wagga, received word on Monday night from the Base Records Office, Melbourne, through Canon Pike, that their only son Gunner Harrie Granville Crittenden, of the 7th Field Artillery Brigade, had been killed in action on November 3. Gunner Crittenden enlisted on January 5 last and sailed for England on May 11, having joined the Medium Trench Mortar Battery, from which he was subsequently transferred to the 7th Field Artillery. Only last week his parents received a letter from him at Salisbury Plain, England, in which he said he expected to be leaving for the front on October 9. He was 19 years of age on October 31, so that it was three days, after the anniversary of his birthday that he was killed, and he could have been only a few days in the firing line. The late Gunner Crittenden was educated it the Convent School, St. Aloysius', Dubbo, and was a particularly bright scholar, passing his school examinations and also his cxaminaton in accountancy brilliantly. At the early age of 14 lie entered the service of the Government Savings Bank at Broken Hill and was transferred to Wagga about two years before his enlistment. He was highly esteemed by Mr. King and the officials of the bank at Wagga, and was regarded by the public as a courteous and bright young officer, for whom a successful carcer was fore shadowed in the Public Service The sympathy of the community will be extended to the bereaved family.
CRITTENDEN.— In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Gunner Harrie Granville Crittenden, 101st Howitzer Battery, who fell in action, Anzac Ridge, November 3, 1917, age 19 years.
"Behind all Shadows Standeth God."
— Inserted by his loving parents and sister, Lorna.