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Private William Henry Barnard

"...like a hero fell"

Researched by Holly Stark, Rose Bay High School

William Henry Barnard faced conflict by serving in the war and contempt from sections of the community when he returned to Tasmania.

While serving in Egypt, William Henry Barnard suffered a bayonet wound and was sent back to Australia in March 1915 where he was discharged, suffered income loss and faced distain.

Injury didn’t deter Billie who served in the served in the Sorell Rifle Club to rebuild his fitness and strength and re-enlisted in August 1915.

Negative attitudes and comments about Billie prompted his father to place a notice public notice stating:

It having been falsely reported in Sorell that my son, Private William Barnard, has returned from Egypt as "an undesirable." I wish, in justice to him, to deny this cowardly slander. My son has now returned to the Front as a Lance-Corporal, which speaks for itself. Should these reports be insisted upon, proceedings will be taken against the slanderers. A. G. BARNARD, Sorell, 19 October 1915

On  21 January 1918, just 22 days after he rejoined his battalion, and only 10 months from the end of the war, William Henry Barnard was killed in action.

William Barnard’s family made this tribute :

“Private William Henry Barnard killed in action in France …. He gave his life for his country. For honour, faith and right. With us his memory ever lives. He fought a noble fight. Midst the roaring of the battle and the rain of shot and shell. Fighting for home and country, He like a hero fell”.

Read Holly Stark's research about William Henry Barwick