Serial Number and
Rank N95091 Birth 11 Dec 1899. Nil
registartion of birth. Herbert gives Port Kembla as his
place of birth. Enlistment included verification of his
birth details, no record could be found but does gives
deatils of his brother Harry's birth 25 May 1898 Botany (La
Perouse) Parents Joseph (Joe- Dooka)
Timbery and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Clarke (both of Aboriginal
heritage) Enlisted Nowra 25 Sept 1918 and
Sydney 13 Oct 1918. Address C/- P O'Connell Osborne St
Nowra Next of
Kin Joseph Timbery of La
Perouse Service Discharge as war had
finished, did go to Training camp. War
Record Digital copy held by the
Australian
National Archives.
On enlistment papers there is a notation "Half Caste has
been associated with whites all life"
[sic] Death 13 Sep 1971 Randwick
Hospital Sydney Burial Botany Cemetery Sydney
NSW Marriage 1929 Wollongong M1929/8120
to Elizabeth Jane Butler b. 1899 Aboriginal Camp Ulladulla
(daughter of Thomas Francis Butler and Louisa Kate Campbell
both of Aboriginal heritage). Elizabeth died 21 July 1944 La
Perouse. Buried Botany Cemetery Sydney.
Name
Index -
Aboriginals
in WW1