Joseph Bartley

Enlistment Date

17/10/1916

Age At Enlistment

Rank On Enlistment

Private

Regimental No.

6677

Battalion

20th Battalion, 19th Reinforcement

Fate

Returned

Fate Date

05/12/1917

Occupation

Shipman

Place of Birth

Newcastle, NSW

Religion

Presbyterian

Marital Status

Single

Embarkation Details

Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 7 February 1917

Joseph Bartley’s name was inscribed on the Merewether Advance honor board. He was a regular player in their lower grade teams for many seasons up until the time of his enlistment. Private Bartley never got to the Western Front. After enlisting and before embarking for England he was hospitalised for two months with gonorrhea. While in England he was invalided with a deformed right arm. On 13 August 1917, a medical board of examiners wrote, “owing to old injury to the right arm this limb is practically useless and can not be profitably employed.” He returned to Australia, married and was father to seven children. He died in 1958, aged 67.