Captain Mervyn James HERBERT, a 27 year old Area Officer from Caringa, Brighton, South Australia. He enlisted in the AIF on 19 August 1914 and was allotted to the 10th Battalion, D Company which embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 20 October 1914. Subsequently HERBERT was Wounded in Action 26 April 1915. At the conclusion of the Great War, HERBERT Returned to Australia, 8 January 1919.

The Adelaide Chronicle, 8 May 1915, p. 38.

Father:

5751 Sapper Ralph HERBERT, 2nd Tunnelling Company, returned to Australia, 15 April 1918;

Brothers:

216 Driver Clifford HERBERT, 4th Machine Gun Bn, returned to Australia, 1 November 1918;

1352 Pte Henry HERBERT, 50th Bn, returned to Australia, 14 December 1918.