Name
Henry Ernest Clifford Minerds
30 April 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/10/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
3410
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
50th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
III. N. 1.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Henry Ernest Clifford Minerds was born on 30 April 1891 at Toorensille, South Australia, the son of James and Annie Minerds, of Albert Street, Mitcham, South Australia.
He was educated at Mitcham Model School, South Australia and worked as a chairmaker.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 28 July 1915 as a Private in the 10th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement. His unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia on HMAT A24 Benalla on 27 October 1915.
He later served with the 50th Infantry Battalion and by the time he died on 18 October 1917 he had risen to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He was said to have been killed at Passchendaele Ridge when a shell hit the trench where he and Sergeant Ruddigan were sitting and they were both killed.
Additional Information
His mother(?), Mrs A E Minerds of Albert Street, Mitcham, South Australia, ordered his headstone inscription: "NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING". Brother: 3603 Gunner James Edwin Bell MINERDS, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column, returned to Australia, 15 June 1919. Photograph appears on Australian War Memorial site.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au, Australian War Memorial,
