Herbert Rockliff

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Herbert Rockliff, Deputy Town Clerk. Image courtesy Orange City Library


ROCKLIFF, Herbert

Service no: 1335 [1]

Place of birth: Wardell, Richmond River

Address: Orange

Occupation: Deputy Town Clerk, Orange

Next of kin: John Rockliff (father), 396 Parramatta Road, Petersham

Date of enlistment: 1 February 1915

Place of enlistment: Liverpool

Age at enlistment: 30

Fate: Promoted to Sergeant 29 March 1915. Embarked HMAT A32 Themistocles Sydney 12 May 1915. Joined Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Gallipoli 16 August 1915. Disembarked Alexandria 9 January 1916. Joined British Expeditionary Force Alexandria 7 March 1916. Disembarked Marseilles 23 March 1916. Killed in action Pozieres, France.

Date of death: 27 July 1916

Buried: In the field where he fell. His remains were exhumed in 1935 and reburied in London Cemetery and Extension, High Wood, Longueval, France, Grave 26, Row D, Plot 11

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