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Harry IRVINE

Regimental number2575
Place of birthDundee, Scotland
SchoolAnerum Public School, Dundee, Scotland
Other trainingNew Zealand
Age on arrival in Australia19
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationGrocer
AddressC/o YMCA, Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21
Next of kinFather, Joseph Irvine, 331 Barbadoes Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
Enlistment date6 October 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name39th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/56/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 9 November 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll39th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 13 December 1917
Place of death or woundingBelgium
Age at death21.11
Age at death from cemetery records21
Place of burialBerks Cemetery Extension (Rosenberg Plateau Plots) (Plot II, Row B, Grave No. 3), Ploegsteert, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
131
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Joseph and SarahIRVINE, 20 Bowen Street, Upper Riccarton, New Zealand
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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