| Regimental number | 5611 |
| Place of birth | Nhill, Victoria |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Gripman |
| Address | 9 Moore Street, South Yarra, Victoria |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 34 |
| Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Margaret Haar, 9 Moore Street, South Yarra, Victoria |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 22nd Battalion, 15th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/39/4 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 22nd Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | 'The deceased soldier twice served in the AIF. First in 7th Battalion and in 22nd Battalion'. Details from Margaret Haar, Wife, 156 Donald Street, Brunswick, Victoria |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Zonnebeke, Belgium |
| Age at death | 39 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 35 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 98 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Herman and Elizabeth HAAR; husband of Margaret HAAR, 156 Donald Street, Brunswick, Victoria |
| Family/military connections | Cousin: 722 Pte Peter PETERSON (alias PALMER), 21st Bn, killed in action, 23 November 1915. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Admitted to No. 2 General Hospital, Mena, Cairo, 10 August 1915 (constipation); discharged 27 August 1915. Commenced return to Australia for discharge on 'Euripides', 29 August 1915; discharged, 9 November 1915 (medically unfit). Re-enlisted, 3 May 1916, embarked with 15th Reinforcements, 22nd Bn, from Melbourne on board HT 'Shropshire', 25 September 1916; disembarked England, 10 November 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 13 December 1916; taken on strength, 22nd Bn, 18 December 1916. To hospital, 16 April 1917 (influenza); transferred to 3rd Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 21 April 1917; rejoined Bn, 11 May 1917. Appointed Lance Corporal, 4 June 1917. Reported missing in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917; fate confirmed as 'killed in action' by Court of Inquiry, 5 May 1918. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
