Henry Thomas Jarvis

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Regimental number 1612

Place of birth Bridgewater, Tasmania

School State School, Tasmania

Religion Presbyterian

Occupation Labourer

Address Mount Pleasant, New Norfolk, Tasmania

Marital status Single

Age at embarkation 23

Next of kin Father, T D Jarvis, Mount Pleasant, New Norfolk, Tasmania

Enlistment date 2 December 1914

Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 12 December 1914

Rank on enlistment Private

Unit name 12th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement

AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/29/2

Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic on 19 February 1915

Rank from Nominal Roll Private

Unit from Nominal Roll 52nd Battalion

Recommendations (Medals and Awards)

Mention in Despatches

Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette', Supplement, No. 29455 (28 January 1916); 'Commonwealth Gazette No. 44 (6 April 1916).

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Recommendation date: 18 August 1918

Fate Killed in Action 4 September 1916

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Place of death or wounding Mouquet Farm, Pozieres, France

Age at death from cemetery records 26

Place of burial No known grave

Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.

On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.

After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,

 Australian War Memorial	155

Miscellaneous information from

 cemetery records	Parents: Thomas and Athild JARVIS, Don Banks, New Norfolk, Tasmania

Family/military connections Brothers: 4524 Pte Alfred Edward JARVIS, 52nd Bn, returned to Australia, 27 August 1917; 161 Pte Richard George JARVIS, 12th Bn, killed in action, 2 May 1915; 984 Pte Roy William JARVIS MM, Australian Infantry Base Depot, returned to Australia, 26 July 1919.

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