Participant Info

Surname

Riches

First Name

Herbert

Initial

E

Service Number

1627

Rank

private

Unit Served

17th Battalion, Machine Gun Section

Service Record

Egypt, Gallipoli, France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

April 22

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

May 12

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 33, image page 32

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Albert E. and Minnie Riches

Parental Address

91 Rofe Street, Leichhardt

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Balmain, February 24, 1892, educated Leichhardt Public School, enlisted April 1915, embarked May 12, 1915. War service: Egypt, Gallipoli (evacuation), France. (His brother, George Riches, also enlisted in WW1. George was killed in the war. Anoth