Herbert Boardman

Service number: 155

Rank: Private, Lance Corporal, Lieutenant

Unit: 1st Field Ambulance 1st Battalion

Service: Australian Army

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Herbert Boardman was born in Woollahra and was 23 years old at enlistment on 8th September 1914. He was a warehouseman. Herbert’s father George Boardman lived in Redfern at 48 Elizabeth Street, Redfern then at Vaucluse.

Herbert embarked on the Euripides from Sydney on 20th October 1914. He served at Gallipoli from 25th April 1915 until the evacuation. He was then transferred to France as Lieutenant and served with his unit until the end of the war when he was discharged on 22nd February 1919.

Herbert received a Certificate for Mention in Dispatches, which was gazetted in the London Gazette as his name was submitted as deserving of special mention.