Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 04/04/1917
- Date of Discharge
- 13/07/1921
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Fiji
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Next of Kin
- Thomas Bennett Harley (father), Frankston, Victoria
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 5116
- Final Rank
- Warrant Officer Class 1
- Final Unit
- Australian War Graves Service
Notes
Harley was a military staff clerk at the Royal Military College, Duntroon when he enlisted in 1917. He embarked with reinforcements to the 30th Battalion in May 1917 but served in AIF Headquarters in London and with the Graves Registration Detachment in France before returning to Australia in 1921. Electoral rolls show him working as a public servant at Duntroon in 1928. He later lived in Lane Cove and died in Sydney on 14 November 1984 aged 93 years.
Sources
ACT Electoral Roll - 1916, 1928
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920
Sydney Morning Herald - 15 November 1984