BEACHLEY, Hubert Godfrey
Service Number: | 882 |
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Enlisted: | 19 August 1914, Enlisted at Bendigo |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia, 10 November 1897 |
Home Town: | Bridgewater (Victoria, AUS), Loddon, Victoria |
Schooling: | Bridgewater State School 1097, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 17 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey Panel 28 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bridgewater & Memsie Districts Honor Roll, Bridgewater Brass Band Roll of Honour, Bridgewater Memorial Hall & Honour Roll, Bridgewater Water Mill Company War Memorial, Bridgewater on Loddon School Honour Roll, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 882, Enlisted at Bendigo | |
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19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 882, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 882, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 882, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Henry Alfred Beachley and Catherine Beachley nee Smalley of Lyndhurst Street, Bridgewater-on-Lodden, Victoria. Brother of Arthur Beachley, Henry Arthur Beachley, Leonard McLlennard Beachley, Keith Beachley, Daphne Maud Douglass nee Beachley and Ronald Beachley
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal.Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Bendigo Advertiser 17/6/1915:
Private H. G. Beachley.
"Mrs. Beachley, of Bridgewater, received word last week that her son, Pte. Hubert G., had been wounded at the Dardanelles. Pte. Beachley, who went with the first contingent, was born in Kerang. He is 18 years of age, and with his mother and her family, had resided at Bridgewater for 13 years. He was an active member of the Bridgewater Brass Band. According to advices received from the Defence department, he is not seriously wounded."