Richard John DARLEY

DARLEY, Richard John

    Service Number: 2799
    Enlisted: 26 October 1916, Enlisted in Adelaide
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 43rd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Quorn, South Australia, 12 August 1886
    Home Town: Clapham, Mitcham, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, Ypres, Belgium, 11 October 1917, aged 31 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    Addenda Panel 59 No known grave, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
    Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kingoonya & Tarcoola Honour Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)
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    World War 1 Service

    26 Oct 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2799, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted in Adelaide
    16 Dec 1916: Involvement Private, 2799, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
    16 Dec 1916: Embarked Private, 2799, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Henry Darley and Elizabeth (nee Rein) Darley; brother of William Henry Darley and Alice Maude Darley. Husband of Ethel Florence Darley of 54 Riley Street, Hyde Park, Sydney, NSW 

    19 March 1917 - to hospital with Influenza

    5 August 1917 - AWOL for a day. Confined to barracks for 14 days

    Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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