His early life at Lowthorpe, East Yorkshire and his travels
		His life in Australia
		Training at Larkhill Camp and on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
DYSENTERY DIARRHOEA ENTERITIS furlough		His enlistment, embarkation and service record
		Ypres and the approach march - 25 September - 3 October 1917
		His death at 3rd Ypres - 4 October 1917 The remains of Zonnebeke Station and Alma Forest - 11 October 1917
		His memorials on The Menin Gate and in Lowthorpe, East Yorkshire and Caboolture, Queensland
We deeply regret to inform you that the above is now reported killed in action.		Postscript The records of the Australian Red Cross and Australian War Memorial

Photograph

This photograph, of an 'unknown' relative, was found in the family collection of Sheila Mellstrom, John Henry's great niece. It was immediately recognised as John Henry in his uniform of the 3^rd Division, Australian Imperial Force. The slouched hat, which originated in Egypt, with the AIF hat badge front and centre was the mark of Lt. Gen. Monash's 3^rd Division. She very kindly gave me the original. Double click on the image for an A5 copy.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks are extended to:

• Flanders Battlefield Tours - Ypres for going out of their way to find Alma Farm.
• Ted Harris who organises the 42nd Battalion AIF web site and who has made available 'The Spirit of the Forty-Second' on the web.
• Madame Emiel Vanlerberghe of Brigadehof Alma, Albertstraat 22, Zonnebeke, the present owner of Alma Farm, who showed me great kindness by allowing me to wander over the land that John Henry fought for. She also donated photographs of the farm in the 1920s.

References

• Bean CW, 1933, 'The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18, Vol. IV, AIF in France 1917', Angus & Robertson, Sydney Chapter XX Third step – Broodseinde pp 833
• Brahms Vivian, 1938, 'The Spirit of the Forty-Second: narrative of the 42nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Australian Imperial Forces, during the Great War, 1914-1918‘, Brisbane: W.R. Smith and Paterson (printers), Published for the 42nd Battalion AIF Association.
• Cave, N, 1997, 'Passchendaele: The Fight for the Village', Leo Cooper/Pen and Sword Books, London
• Forecast Books of Colonel E Gold, Meteorologist to the BEF, Meteorological Office, Bracknell
• Imperial War Museum, Photographic Archives, London
• MacDonald Lyn, 1978, 'They Called it Passchendaele' - Battle for Broodseinde Ridge - 4 October 1917', Michael Joseph, London
• Mallett, Ross, The 42nd Battalion Australian Imperial Forces (AIF), Chapter 5 of an Australian Defence Academy MA thesis
• McCarthy C, 1995, 'Passchendaele: The day-by-day account', Arms and Armour, London
• Read P, 1999, 'Walking the Salient', Leo Cooper/Pen and Sword Books, London
• 'Trench Map 28NE1 D22a 2. 4 October 1917', WO297/718, The National Archives, Kew, London
• '11th Brigade War Diaries', WO95/3425, The National Archives, Kew, London
• '42nd Battalion War Diary October 1917', Australian War Memorial AWM4 23/59/12 (With thanks to Grey Lynch of Canberra, whose great uncle 2nd.Lt. James Patrick Kelly-Healey, of ‘D’ Company, 42nd Battalion, was Killed in Action 4 October 1917 on the reverse slope of Hill 40 and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

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