Harry Duff Badmington

Service number: 3019

Rank: Private

Unit: 20th Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 9 October 1917

Cause of death: Killed in action

Cemetery or memorial details: Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium

War Grave Register notes:

BADMINGTON, Pte Harry Duff, 3019. 20th Bn. Australian Inf. Killed in action 9th October 1917. Age 22. Youngest of five sons of George and Annie Badmington, of 22 Whistler St., Manly, New South Wales. XXXIX. E. 22.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Harry Badmington was born at Manly in 1894. He worked as a labourer. He enlisted on 8 August 1915 and served with the 20th and 56th Battalions. He was treated in Egypt for appendicitis, and was hospitalised several times in France. He was wounded in the Battle of Poelcappelle, part of the Third Battle of Ypres, on 9 October 1917. A Court of Inquiry found that he had died of his wounds, but his body was not found.

Pte Badmington and his brother Richard are commemorated on a headstone in Manly Cemetery, plot U.281.11 Sydney Morning Herald 9 January 1918, p10.