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Personal data

• Name HARPLEY
• Initials JT
• First name JOHN THOMAS
• Place of birth Cootamundra
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Family Son of James and Elisabeth Harpley, of Cootamundra; six brothers and three younger sisters;
  Husband of Margaret; father of Ernest, John and George; his youngest son George was born in September 1916, five months after John left for France. He never saw his youngest son;
• Profession Platelayer
• Extra info Was called 'The Red King'

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in West Maitland on 4 January 1916
• Service number 446
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 34th Bn. Australian Infantry B Company, 6th Platoon
• Division - Brigade 9th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career To France on 21 November 1916

Death

• Wounded Wounded to hospital on 2 December 1916; back to unit on 11 March 1917; shell explosion in reserve trenches near Ieper, killed seven of his company, John was severely wounded;
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in thorax and abdomen in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 1 October 1917
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - E - 3

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