BARDIOUX, Felix Edmore
| Service Number: | 3779 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | St George's Catholic School, Carlton, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Mattress maker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 26 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3779, 22nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3779, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: Middle name is incorrectly recorded as Edmond on original record | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3779, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
He was killed in action on 26 August 1916 in France, aged 19. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His brother 512 Pte Joseph Bardioux died of wounds in Egypt on 30 April 1915.
Only indication of how he died in the Red Cross Files are 'He may be a prisoner of war in Germany. He was last seen with other members of his machine gun crew, surrounded by Germans'.
Their Dad, Joseph Felix Bardioux was a Frenchman who came to Australia in 1889. His address was in Carlton Victoria and he was a chef by occupation. In 1934 he applied for a certificate of naturalization, stating that he had 2 sons killed during WW1 fighting for Australia, and lived in Carlton for the past 44 years. He had to renounce his French citizenship and was successful, but passed away in 1936.
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