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Charles Herbert
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| Next of Kin: | Mrs Anna Emelia Herbert – Mother ; Port Moresby, Papua, British New Guinea.
Charles and Anna Herbert - Parents. |
| Biographical notes: | Pastoralist, Northern Territory, 1907-13.
Officer in Civil Service, Papua. 1913 St Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide. He was the son of former NT Administrator (Government Resident) Judge C.E. Herbert 1910-1915 and brother of Oscar and Evan Herbert of Koolpinyah Station. (Geddes p.46) |
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| Date of Enlistment: | 03 April 1916. |
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| Date of Death: | 04 October 1917. |
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| Service History: | Embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A19 Afric on 9 June 1916. “Lieutenant C.L. Herbert of the 43rd Battalion was killed on October 4th 1917 during a German artillery barrage on 1 and 2 ANZAC Corp as they keenly awaited their orders to attack Broodseinde" Paul A. Rosenzweig Honouring the Northern Territory's War Dead, Sabretache Vol XXX Jan-Mar 1989 p. 3
“Some twenty officers are known to have been killed by the bombardment, and about a seventh of the attacking force of I Anzac appears to have been killed or wounded. Most officers felt certain that the assembly had been detected, but at the last moment the 25th, waiting on the edge of Zonnebeke, suspected another cause. Since 11 o’clock Germans had been seen continually passing across its front, and, although for some hours this was interpreted as a normal relief, its continuance and the weight of the subsequent bombardment convinced those on the spot that the Germans were about to attack. It was then, however, too late to fire the S.O.S. signal, since the artillery was forbidden to answer in the last ten minutes before the attack.” C.E.W. Bean Volume IV – The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917 p 844 |
| Genealogical Society NT Pioneer Register: | 4485 |
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Service Record
Roll of Honour Embarkation Roll Nominal Roll Unit War diary Probate Notice - Northern Territory Times and Gazette Friday 22 January 1926, p 4 C.E.W. Bean Volume IV – The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1917 p 844 Colliver, Eustace James. The forty-third : the story and official history of the 43rd Battalion, A.I.F. Adelaide : Rigby, 1920 Geddes, Clive Francis. Darwin Returned Servicemens' League (RSL) : A Concise History of its Conception and Development. Darwin : Clive Francis Geddes, Dec. 2010 p.46 |
| Related Materials: | NT Archives have a large collection of papers and photographs, which include a photo Charles Lloyd Herbert in uniform. |
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