Harry AVERY

AVERY, Harry

Service Number: 467
Enlisted: 9 September 1914, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born: Gore Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 11 November 1895
Home Town: Gore Hill, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling: Gore Hill State School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Died of wounds (POW of Germany), France, 25 May 1918, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension
Plot 1V, Row K, Grave 8,
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

9 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 467, Sydney, New South Wales
22 Dec 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
25 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
23 Aug 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 467, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW (cheek)
5 Apr 1918: Imprisoned Villers-Bretonneux
5 Apr 1918: Wounded Private, 467, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Villers-Bretonneux, GSW (head)
25 May 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 467, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 467 awm_unit: 45 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-05-25

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Biography

8 Battalion

Rank - Private

Also served in the Citizen Military Forces

Died in Feldlazarett (German field hospital) from an earlier GSW to the head (Prisoner of War of Germany)