Private Harold Victor Barger

Service number 1675
Birth Place Australia: Victoria, Bendigo
Death Date 1916-02-16
Death Place Egypt
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • 21st Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 21st Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Private Harold Victor Barger (1675, 21st Battalion) was a farmer from Bendigo, Victoria. He was diagnosed with cerebro spinal meningitis and died on 16 February 1916. Harold is buried in the Tel El Kebir War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. His mother wrote that he was 17 and a half years of age at the time of his death. Harold's brother Private William Gabriel Barger was killed in the battle of Fromelles on July 1916, and another brother Private Robert Charles Barger served with the 8th Battalion.

Rolls

Timeline

Date of enlistment 26 January 1915
Date of embarkation 16 July 1915
Date of death 16 February 1916
Date of fate 16 February 1916