6th Infantry Battalion
Killed In Action
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John Patrick Carbery (SN 3274) was born in Bendigo but was living in Humffray Street Brown Hill, a 23-year-old labourer, when he enlisted on August 2nd 1915. He embarked for overseas service on October 11th aboard the Nestor as a reinforcement for the 6th Infantry Battalion. He was killed in the fighting at Mouquet Farm, near Pozieres, on August 20th 1916. He has no known grave, and his name is recorded on the Australian National Memorial at Villers Bretonneux, France.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as John P. Garbery.
