Harvey Standish WARDE

Commemorated:
1. Memorial:	Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
2. Book:	The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918	Pg.137
3. Memorial:	The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour	15B GQS

Awards & Titles:

Family :

Son of St. Andrew and Rosamond Amelia Warde, of Orara, Queen St., Southport, Queensland. Born at Brisbane, Queensland. Mining Inspector (1906)

Service Life:

Campaigns:

The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Unit / Ship / Est.: 2 Bn Australian Machine Gun Corps

BEAN 225, 285, 684

Action : The Battle of Amiens and associated actions

8 August - 17 August 1918. This was the battle that turned the tide of the German advance and started the Allied advances that were to culminate in the Armistice three months later. The impact of the defeat at Amiens on German morale cannot be overstated ? they had done all they could yet still the allies, particularly with US troops starting to be deployed to effect, had absorbed everything and were still capable of attacking and beating them.

Born Britain, Living Brisbane, Widdower, no children. Enlisted 17 March 1917 aged 42. Had previously been rejected as medically unfit. From 2/4/18 to 4/5/18 attended musketry course in Tidworth, passed with distinction as Lewis Gunner. Embarked from Folkestone 9/7/18. Memo in file: ...was killed instantly by a MG bullet in the face. He was buried by members of his Company and a cross erected. Buried at 62D SE. X 10.b File shows that his mother wrote on June 13th 1919 asking for information following news 9 months earlier that he had sustained a wound. In fact there was no such advice. Instead his mother was recovering from illness when news of his death was delivered and his sisters decide not to tell her. A clergyman was sent to see them and cautioned that at some point the truth would come out but clearly by June 1919 the mother remained unaware of the truth. By 4th August she knew the truth. In June 1923 she asks for information on where he is buried, but he has no known grave. see file; http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/list-name.aspx?name=warde

Masonic :

Type	Lodge Name and No.	Province/District :
Mother :	Leichhardt Lodge No. 932 E.C.	Australia

Initiated	Passed	Raised
4th April 1906	-	-

Past Master
Joined Lodge 932 from Scottish Constitution.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The (UK) National Archives
Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
Researcher : Bruce Littley

Last Updated: 2017-06-25 15:51:27