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Private Harry Adams - No: 5972 - Regiment: 13th Battalion
Australian Imperial Forces. Harry sailed to England
from Sydney on the 22nd August, 1916. Harry was born at St Marys on the
20th April, 1891. He contacted meningitis at Salisbury Camp in England
on the 7th January, 1917
and died at the age of 26 years. He is buried at Stratford
Sub-castle (St Lawrence)
churchyard in England
(2 miles outside Salisbury) in
Wiltshire. Memorial Panel: 68. It was ironic that Harry sailed to war on the
"Wiltshire" and is buried in Wiltshire!! Picture of Soldier & Gravesite has
been obtained
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Corporal William Andrews - No: 2780 - Regiment: 4th
Battalion, 1st Division, 9th Reinforcements, Australian
Imperial Forces. William was killed at the age of 22 years in Belgium
on the 26th September, 1917.
He is buried at Plot V1, Row G, Grave No 16, Oosttaverne
Wood cemetery, Wytschaete, Heuvelland,
West Vlaanderen.
His remains were exhumed from Westhock. William was
born at St Marys on the 27th February, 1895. Picture of Soldier & Gravesite has
been obtained
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Private Owen Wallace Baker - No: 1867 - Regiment: 34th
Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. Owen was KIA in Belgium
at the age of 22 years on the 29th
July, 1917. He is buried at Plot 11, Row F, Grave No 10, Kandahar Farm
Cemetery, Neuve-Eglise. Owen was born at St Marys on the 4th
October, 1894. Picture
of Soldier & Gravesite has been obtained
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Sapper Sydney William Bennett ("BILLY") No:
21660 - Regiment: 2nd Signal Squadron, Australian Engineers -Died: of Malaria
on 21st October, 1918 at
age: 28 Years - Buried: Plot C, Grave No 21, Damascus British War Cemetery, Syria.
Sydney was born at St Marys on 22nd
December, 1889. It
would be appreciated if anyone in the Syria
area is available to take a photo of the grave and send it back by email.
Picture of Soldier has been obtained
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Lance Corporal:
David Leighton Blyton - No: 2038A, Regiment: 2nd Division/19th
Battalion/5th Brigade/3rd Reinforcements - AIF. Enlisted on the 9th July,
1915, sailed on the
H.M.A.T. A54 "Runic" on the 9th August, 1915 and arrived at Gallipoli on the 29th
September, 1915. He was
evacuated at the end of the Gallipoli campaign to Murdros
and then to Alexandria on 9th January, 1916. He then fought in France and died after sustaining gunshot wounds to the
hand, back and legs on the 14th February, 1917 and is remembered at Dernancourt
Communal Cemetery Extension - Memorial Panel 84. He was born at Cooma NSW in 1884. He lived at Eastern Creek NSW at the
outbreak of the war. His parents moved to Granville NSW.
Picture of Soldier has been obtained
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Sergeant James David Cook- No: 7007 - Regiment: 19th Battalion/21st
Reinforcement, - Australian Infantry. He served as a Lieutenant in the Senior
Cadets before enlisting in the army. He enlisted on the 8th October,
1917 at Llandilo, NSW and
spent 2 years serving as a drill & machine gun instructor with the rank
of Acting Staff Sergeant Major. Embarked from Melbourne to Liverpool aboard the HMAT A71 "Nestor" on the 13th March,
1918. He was born at Newtown, NSW on 25th April, 1896 and was killed in Action in France on the 10th August, 1918 at the age of 22 years. Picture
of Soldier has been obtained
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Private William Feening – No: 1351 – Regiment: 4th Battalion/2nd
Reinforcements – Australian Infantry.
Enlisted on 16th November, 1914. Died of
wounds in France at the age of 38 years on 15th
April, 1918. Buried: Plot 180 Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, France. He was
born in 1880 at Rocky Ponds, Harden (Near Orange) NSW. Parents were John & Martha Feening (Nee Barker).
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Private Athol
Garner, No: 2185 - Regiment: 45th Battalion Australian
Imperial Forces, Killed in Action on 28th March, 1918 in France Aged: 22
Years Buried: Plot 11, Row C, Grave No 16, Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France Born: 1896 at St Marys.(Brother
of William & Harold)
Picture of
Gravesite & Soldier has been obtained
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Private William Harold Garner (Brother of
Athol & Harold) -No: 5944, Regiment: 1st AIF, 2nd Division, 20th
Battalion, 5th Brigade, 16th Reinforcements - Infantry. William's occupation
before the war was a coachbuilder at James Bennett's Wagon Works for 6 years.
William enlisted on the 26th June,
1916 at the age of 24 years at Victoria Barracks, Sydney.
William was Killed In Action on 11th
August, 1918 at France
at the age of 31. His body was never found and his name is on the
commemorative plaque at Villers-Bretonneux Memorial France. Picture of
Soldier & Gravesite has been obtained
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Private Arthur Stanley Gerring -No: 2499 -Regiment:
39th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. Arthur died of wounds on 1st December, 1917 aged 22 years -
Buried: Plot V111, Row I, Grave No. 125, Boulogne Eastern Cemetery,
France. He enlisted on 25th March, 1916. Information on
the back of the photo says Sapper Stanley Gerring - 1st Australian Tunneling
Company - Sailed on 1st April, 1916.
He was born at St Marys, NSW on the 2nd June, 1895.
Picture of Soldier & Gravesite has been obtained
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Private Edward James Hope - No: 4188 - 54th
Battalion, Australian Infantry Forces. K.I.A. near Fromelles,
France. On Memorial
Panel 159, 7 VC Corner, Australian Cemetery, France.
Enlisted on 23rd September, 1915
into the 2nd Battalion, 13th Reinforcements. He left Australia
on the "A60 HMAT Aeneas" on the 20th December, 1915 and after his arrival in Egypt
the divisions were split in half and he was allocated to the 54th Battalion
on the 16th February, 1916.
He embarked at Alexandria on the
"HMAT Caledonian" on the
19th June, 1916 and disembarked at Marseilles
bound for the Western Front. He was reported missing on the 21st July, 1916 during the Battle
for Poziers but was upgraded to KIA after the German authorities handed over paybooks of dead Australian soldiers. Member soldiers of
his 54th Battalion had seen him killed and because there was no body (it was
thought that the Germans buried the body after taking his paybook)
he was declared KIA on the 20th
July, 1916. Picture of
Soldier has been obtained
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Lance Corporal Kenneth Halstead Jackson -
Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. Kenneth enlisted at the
outbreak of the war with his brother, Serg. E H
Jackson D.S.M. and both brothers were on Gallipoli. Ken was killed at
Gallipoli on 28th April, 1915
and is Buried at Lone Pine
Cemetery, Gallipoli. Ken was born
at Bondi NSW in 1886.
Picture of Soldier &
memorial tablet has been obtained
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Private Samuel Luke - No: 4830, Regiment:
4th Australian Pioneers. Enlisted in November, 1915 and Killed in Action on: 21st April, 1917 - Buried: Plot 1,
Row E, Grave No 13, Vaulx-Hill
Cemetery, Vaulx-Vraucourt, France.
He was born at St Marys, NSW in 1896.
Picture of Soldier &
Gravesite has been obtained
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Private Cecil Mallard - No: 2445 -
Regiment: 5th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps. Born at Queanbeyan, Canberra.
Lived at St Marys before the war. Killed in Action
on the 20th September, 1917
at the age of 21 yrs. Body never found - his name is on the Commemorative
Plaque at: Panel 29 within the Perth
Cemetery (China Wall), Zillebeke - Belgium.
He enlisted on 23rd July, 1916
at the age of 20 years.
Picture of Soldier &
Gravesite has been obtained
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Lance Corporal: William Perry - No: 19626
- Regiment: 18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Killed in Action on 20th September, 1917 in Belgium.
He is listed on the Menin Gate memorial in Belgium
- Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31. (No body was found) Picture of
Soldier & memorial has been obtained
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Private Leslie Robert Phillips
No: 1615 Regiment: 3rd Battalion, Australian Infantry. Died: 7th - 12th
August, 1915 at the age of 21 years. Buried: Plot 2, Row B, Grave No: 13,
Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli. He was the son of Mary Esgate
(Nee Phillips) of Wardell, Richmond
River, NSW.
(Mother was single at time of Leslie's birth.) Enlisted at Holdsworthy on the
12th January, 1915 at the age of 20 into the 3rd Battalion. He
embarked from Sydney on the
"HMAT A49 Seang Choon"
on the 11th February, 1915
for Gallipoli. He was on Gallipoli when he received a bullet wound to his
left hand on the 2nd June, 1915
and was sent to the No. 1 General Hospital
at Cairo. He was returned to
Gallipoli via the "Scotian" from Alexandria
on the 4th July, 1915 and
was killed in action in August. His mother received a letter dated 19/4/1923 saying that Leslie's body
had been exhumed and re-interred at the Lone
Pine Cemetery.
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Private Wallis Crossley Rankine - No: 5206, Regiment: 1st Division/1st
Battalion/1st Brigade/16th Reinforcements - Australian Imperial Forces.
Enlisted on the 10th July, 1915
and sailed on 1st April, 1916
on the "Makarini". Wallis was born in
1886 at Berrick, Victoria.
He was Killed in Action on 5th
November, 1916 in France
and remembered at Villers-Bretonneux Memorial Cemetery,
France (No body was
found)
Picture of Soldier &
memorial has been obtained
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Private William James Robertson No: 173 -
Regiment: 3rd Battalion/A Coy A.I.F. Died of Bronchial Pneumonia at Mena Camp, Cairo Age: 22 years Buried: British
Protestant Cemetery
at Cairo. William enlisted on the 21st September, 1914 into the
3rd Battalion. He sailed from Sydney
on the "HMAT Euripides" on the
18th October, 1914, arriving in Egypt
in December. He was part of the troops being trained for the Gallipoli
campaign when he contracted pneumonia and died. Born in 1893 at Lywick, East Yell, Shetland,
Scotland. Before the
war, Bill was a member of the St Marys Riffle Club.
His occupation was listed as a labourer where he was working for William
Brell at his tannery in St Marys.
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Valentine Steel -
No: 666 - Regiment: 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces. Born on 14th February, 1895 at Wangaratta, Victoria.
Killed in Action on 5th November, 1916 in France at the age of 20 and is
buried - Plot V, Row AA, Grave 19, Grevillers
British Cemetery, France. Arthur was working at the St Marys
Post Office before the war and was proficient in Morse code.
Picture of Soldier &
Gravesite has been obtained
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Private Henry Lethbridge Tingcombe
- (brother of Noel) No: 3678 - Regiment: 2nd Division/18th Battalion/5th Brigade/8th
Reinforcements, AIF. Embarked on the "H.M.A.T - Aeneas" on the 20th December, 1915 - Died of
wounds on the 29th July, 1916.
Buried: Plot V111, Row A, Grave No 155, Boulogne Eastern Cemetery,
France. He was born in
1893 at Tamworth, NSW
Picture of Soldier &
Gravesite has been obtained
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Private Noel Lethbridge Tingcombe
- No: 3679 - Regiment 2nd Division/18th Battalion/5th Brigade/8th
Reinforcements, AIF. Embarked with his brother, Henry on the 20th December, 1915. Killed in Action on the 4th August, 1916 - Commemorative
plaque at Villers-Bretonneux Memorial Cemetery,
France (No body was
found). He was born on the 27th
September, 1897 at Paddington, NSW.
Picture of Soldier &
memorial site has been obtained
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THE FOLLOWING ST MARY'S SOLDIERS RETURNED FROM
THE WAR.
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Private: Frank Abbott - No: 2326
Regiment: 4th Infantry, 7th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Forces -
Born: Madras, India.
Enlisted on the 8th June, 1915
at the age of 26 years at Liverpool NSW (Holdsworthy)- Occupation: Electrician. He lived at Colyton NSW,
Father: John Edward Abbott, Colyton, Via Mt Druitt.
Sailed from Sydney on the 14th July, 1915 on the
"HMAT A67 Orsova" Religion:
Congregational
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Walter William Anderton -
No: 13733 - Regiment: 6th Reinforcement, Army Medical Corps. He was born at
St Marys NSW and married at the time of war. His
wife, Ida Anderton lived near the railway station
at St Marys - moved to 9 Wellington St, Waterloo. He enlisted on the 30th December, 1915 at Sydney and left Australia on the "A61 Kanowah"
on the 1st April, 1916.
He was attached to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harfield England. On the 5/11/1916 he was admitted to hospital with influenza and was
returned home to Australia on the "Euripides" on the 22nd March,
1918 and discharged on the 4/5/1918 medically unfit
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Private Gustav Edward Sydney Bonnard
-No: 3702 Regiment: 2nd Battalion, 12 Reinforcements. Enlisted at Holdsworthy on the
3rd September, 1915. He sailed from Sydney
to England on
the "HMAT A7 Medic" on the
30th December, 1915. On the
7th January, 1916 he embarked from England
overseas to join the 2nd Battalion at Serapeum. He
was in the field in France
until the 2nd November, 1916
when he was sent to the field ambulance and then transferred to the No. 2
Depot at Rouen suffering from
influenza. On the 5th March, 1917 he was sent to the field ambulance with
Trench Feet and was transferred to the Casualty Clearing Station at Rouen
where on the 12th March, 1917 he was evacuated to England where he was
admitted to the 2nd Southern Hospital with severe trench feet. On the 3rd
December, to the 27th December, 1917 he was reported in hospital with a boil
on his left leg. On the 20th May,
1919 he was returned to Australia
via the "Nestor" from Liverpool England
and arrived in Australia
on the 31st June, 1919.
He was discharged on the 27th
August, 1919.
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Private Francois Pierre Louis Bonnard
No: 4741 Regiment: 30th Infantry Battalion/13th Reinforcements Joined on the
4th February, 1916 and sailed on the
24th January, 1917 on "HMAT A68 Anchises".
Brother of Gustav.
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Second Corporal Edward James Boots (Military Medal)– No:
2745 – Regiment: 7th Field Company Engineers. Joined on 13th
September, 1915. Embarked on the “Suffolk” from Sydney on 27th
November, 1915 to England and sent to France on the 9th
August, 1916. He was appointed as a Driver
and the rank of Lance-Corporal on the 13th
October, 1916. He was awarded the Military
Medal on 12th July, 1918. On the
11th January, 1919 he was appointed the rank of 2nd
Corporal. He was returned to England on the 26th
March, 1919
where he embarked for Australia on the “Ypiringa” and
discharged to the 3rd Military district (Victoria) on the 5th July,
1919. His parents, E. J. & Eliza Boots lived
at Kingswood, NSW.
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Private Rockley Boots (Military Medal) – No: 194 – Regiment: 1st
Field Ambulance. He joined on the
29th September, 1914. He was a
brother to Edward James Boots and worked as a tanner before the war. He was born in St Marys
in 1893. At the age of 21, he embarked
from Australia on the 19th
November, 1914. He was sent to Gallipoli and
returned to Egypt after the evacuation. On the 21st
May, 1917
he was sent to France. He was
gassed in France on the 15th
October, 1917 and was returned to Norfolk hospital in England. He
remained in England until he was returned to France on the 2nd
April, 1918. He was again wounded and returned to England. He won
the Military Medal on the 28th August, 1918. On the
26th October, 1918 he married Christina Semple
at the Registry Office in Andover in Hampshire.
He returned to Australia from England on the 3rd
December, 1918 on the “Port Hacking” and discharged to the 3rd Military
district (Victoria) & then to the 2nd (NSW) on 27th
January, 1919.
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Corporal Alexander Bradley - No 6A - Regiment:
5th Infantry Brigade, 19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces/2nd
Australian Division, Headquarters Staff. Alex enlisted at Liverpool NSW on the 24th February, 1915. On the 12th May, 1915 he embarked from
Sydney and joined the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) at Gallipoli on the 16th August, 1915. He transferred from
Brigade Headquarters Military Mounted Police (MMP) to the M.M.P Headquarters
of the 2nd Division on the 6th
December, 1915 and was evacuated from Gallipoli to Egypt
in November, 1915. He was kicked by a horse after he fell over on the 6th November, 1917 when he was
with the 1st ANZAC Provost Corps who were attached to 2nd division and he was
returned to hospital in France.
He was diagnosed with a fractured jaw at the base of his skull and was
bleeding from the nose and ears and was transferred on the 13th November, 1917 to England.
He left London on the "Field
Marshall" back to Australia
on the 20th August, 1918
where he was discharged medically unfit. He died on the 9th July, 1952 after the war. Picture
of Soldier has been obtained
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Private James Peter Brislan – No: 6647 – Regiment: 7th Field
Company Engineers/4th Reinforcement. His occupation at the time of enlistment
was a Grazier.
He joined on the 18th October, 1915 and embarked from Australia on the 11th
March, 1916. He was in France fighting from 1917 until his return to London on the 18th
March, 1919. He returned to Australia on the “Euripides” on 6th
September, 1919. He was married at the time
of enlistment, his wife Mary lived at Rosemount Ave, Summer Hill, NSW.
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Private Albert Victor Desborough - No: 67157 Enlisted: 31/7/1918 - Central Enlisting Centre
Regiment: No 24 General Service Reinforcements - Sailed: 14th October, 1918 "HMAT Wyreema" - Discharged: 5th January, 1919. His occupation was Bootmaker. He
died at St Marys, NSW on the 17th February, 1973 at the age of 76 and
is buried at St Mary Magdalene C of E, St Marys
NSW. He was born in 1898 at North Hampshire, England. Picture of Soldier & Gravesite
obtained
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Corporal Frederick Wilford
Desborough - No: 2638. Enlisted: 10th September, 1915 Reg:
20th Infantry/6th Reinforcements Regiment: 5th Division/56th Battalion/14th
Field Artillery Brigade which was formed in Egypt
in March, 1916 the Light Trench Mortar Battalion/ Australian Imperial Forces.
He sailed on the "Euripides" on the 2nd November, 1915 to England
and embarked from England
on the 25th August, 1917
on the "HT A24 Benalla". He returned to Australia
on the 26th October, 1917
with gun shot wounds to the right knee and ankle and left tibia. He was born
in 1892 at Rushdon, Northumberland
Shire, England. Picture
of soldier & gravesite has been obtained
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Sergeant Norman "SHANE" Dollin -No: 314 -
Enlisted in Brisbane on the 19th August, 1914- Regiment:1st Australian Light Horse & 2nd Light Horse Regiment
- B. Section, 13th Company - Sailed from Queensland
to the front on 25th September, 1914
on the "Star of England". On 1st
July, 1916 he transferred to the Imperial Camel Corps (3rd ANZAC
ICC) and on the 11th November, 1916
he transferred back to the Light Horse. He died on 11th May, 1955 aged 62 at North
Richmond, NSW. He was born at St Marys,
NSW on the 27th September, 1893. He also served in WW2. Picture
of WW1 Soldier & gravesite obtained
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Private Roy "ROGER" Dollin -No:
845 - Regiment: D Coy - 2nd Division, 25th Battalion/7th Infantry Brigade/1st
Reinforcements. Enlisted on 2nd March,
1915 - 7th Training Battalion, Rollestone Camp, Salisbury Plains,
England Headquarters Company. He was invalided back to Australia
on the 26th September, 1916
and was transferred to a Brisbane
hospital in December suffering from "shell shock". He died 25th May, 1919 of pneumonia at the
age of 27 and is buried at Lithgow, NSW. (Brother of Norman)
He was born at St Marys, NSW on the 9th May, 1891. Picture
of Soldier & Gravesite obtained
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Private Horace Raymond Ford - No: 54314 -
Regiment: 34th Battalion. Enlisted in "Carmichaels
1000", for active service on the Western Front on 30th April, 1918 at Victoria Barracks. He was
recruited into the Australian General Base Depot "F" Company on the 19th June, 1918. He sailed for London
on the "HMAT Field Marshall" and while in London
was sent to the hospital on the 31st
August, 1918 suffering from "piles". He was sent to Rouelles in France
on the 25th January, 1919.
He returned to Australia
on the 7th August, 1919 on
the "HT Wysses". Picture
of Soldier has been obtained
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Private Clarence James Gersbach - No:
2415 - Regiment: 5th Division/54th Battalion/14th Brigade/5th Reinforcement -
AIF. Enlisted 22nd May, 1915.
Clarrie was wounded in action and returned to Australia
from England
on the 31st October, 1917
on the "HMAT A35 Berrima"
. He was discharged on the
31st January, 1918. He was born at St Marys,
NSW in 1896. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Gunner Cecil John Gersbach - No:18459 - Regiment: 2nd Division, 4th Rein, 25th Bat, 7th
Field Artillery Brigade. Cecil was 5 years in the Civilian Forces before
joining the army. An intelligence report conducted by the Australian
Intelligence Corps on the 24th November, 1915 cleared Cecil for action as
"being Australian born with Australian parents". He embarked from Sydney
on the 11th May, 1916 on
the "HMAT A8" to Devonport and then proceeded to France
from Southampton on the 29th December, 1916. He was born at St Marys, NSW in 1894. He also served in WW2. Picture
of soldier has been obtained
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Driver Charles Geoghegan
- No: 25455 - Regiment: 2nd Field Artillery. He Enlisted on the 12th
February, 1916 in Brisbane (Qld) and sailed from
Sydney to Plymouth, England on the Troopship "Grsova"
on the 14th September, 1916 and was transferred to the "A" Battery
Fort at Wallington, Foredam on the 26th October,
1916. He was posted to the 116th Howitzer Battery in the field and in April
1917 he transferred to the 102 Howitzer Battery. He
was hospitalized with "trench feet" and again with V.D and returned
to Australia
via the "Persic" on the 3rd September, 1919 and was discharged on the 18th October, 1919. He died on
the 24th December, 1952
at the age of 69 in Brisbane, Queensland.
He was born at Kiama, NSW on the 6th
May, 1894. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Gunner Edgar Harold Geoghegan
- No: 3641 -Regiment: 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, 52nd Battalion -
Australian Imperial Forces. Enlisted on the 25th August, 1917 in Brisbane
and transferred to Sydney on the 28th October, 1917. On the
31st October, 1917 sailed on the "HMAT Euripides" to Devonport,
England. On his arrival
in England on
the 26th December, 1917 he was sent to the hospital at Codford
with mumps and wasn't released until the
25th February, 1918. On the
14th May 1918 he was gassed with mustard gas and transferred back
to England
from Abbeville to the Connaught
Hospital at Aldershop
with gas poisoning. On the 6th June,
1918 he was transferred from Connaught Hospital
to the 1st Auxiliary Hospital
at Harefield. He was transferred back to England
and returned to Australia on the "HT Devanha"
on the 8th May, 1919 but wasn' t discharged until
the 26th December, 1919. He died on the
8th September, 1968 at the age of 79 in Brisbane,
Queensland. He was born on the 22nd January, 1889 at Broughton
Creek, Berry NSW. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Sapper William James Geoghegan
- No 9877 - Regiment: 9th Field Company, Engineers. Enlisted at Casula, NSW on: 29th
January, 1916 at the age of 33 years & 7 mths. On the 17th March, 1916 he was
transferred to the 9th Field Company Engineers as a Sapper and traveled
overseas on the 5th July, 1916
from Sydney on the "HMAT A31
Ajana" arriving in Plymouth
on the 31st August, 1916.
He embarked from Southampton on the 22nd November, 1916 to France.
He was hospitalized for appendicitis and again for pneumonia and was
transferred back to Australia
on the 28th June, 1919 on
the "Borda". He was born at Kiama, NSW in
1884. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Private Arthur James Gibson - No: 2111 -
Regiment: 1st Pioneer Divi, 3rd Reinforcements - then 8th Battalion. Enlisted: 13th March, 1916 at West Maitland (Gloucester)
NSW at the age of 20 years, 5 mths. He left Australia
on the "Clan McGillivray" on the 3rd May, 1916. On the 24th January, 1919 he was Court
Martialed in France
and sentenced to a 5 year Prison Sentence. He was admitted to Portland
Convict Prison to undergo his sentence. He was released from H.M. Prison
"Shepton Mallett"
having completed part of his sentence. He was finally returned to Australia
on the "H T Hororata" on the 16th April, 1920 and arrived in
Australia on the 18th June, 1920. He was born at
St Marys, NSW on the 4th August, 1895.
Picture of soldier has been
obtained
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Private Harold Garner (brother of William
& Athol) - No: 3050A - Regiment: 3rd Division, 9th Brigade, 35th
Battalion, 7th Reinforcements. He sailed to the front on the 24th January, 1917 on the "Anchises" from Sydney.
He was born at Penrith in 1888. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Lance Corporal Thomas Livingstone Haining - No: 2849 - Regiment:1st
Division/1st Battalion/9th Reinforcement Australian Imperial Forces. He
enlisted on the 19th June, 1915
at Liverpool, NSW and sailed on the "HMAT Argyllshire" on the 30th September, 1915. He died in 1941 in Granville
NSW at the age of 54 years. He was born at Bulli,
NSW in 1887. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Private Darcy Hackett- No: 259 -
Regiment: 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division
Australian Infantry Forces. Darcy enlisted on the 14rh June, 1915. He sailed
from Sydney on the "HMAT
Runic" on the 9th August, 1915
to the Suez in Egypt.
Due to hospitalization he missed being transferred to Gallipoli. He returned
to Australia
on the "HMT Suffolk" and was discharged on the 10th October, 1919. He was born at St Marys, NSW on the
27th January, 1896. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Private James Samuel Hackett - No 3774 -
Born: 10th February, 1891
at St Marys - Enlisted: On the 15th August, 1915 at Holdsworthy
and sailed on the "HMAT Medic" on the 7th January, 1916. - Regiment: 1st Division/3rd
Battalion/12th Reinforcements, Australian Imperial Forces. He was invalided
home with "trench feet" on the
16th May, 1918. He died on 26th December, 1926 at the age of 38 years and is
buried at St Marys, NSW. He was born at St Marys, NSW on the
10th February, 1891. Picture of soldier & Gravesite
obtained
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Gunner Allen Charles Innes
- No: 36625 - Regiment: Field Artillery Brigade - Enlisted on the 5th January, 1917 at Liverpool
- Sailed: from Sydney on the
"HMAT Port
Sydney" on 5th November, 1917. At the time of
enlistment, Allen was working as a school teacher at Brigalow School,
Gulargambone, NSW. He was
born at Mt Druitt, NSW in 1896. He served in the Field Artillery Brigade in France
and as a "Driver" . He returned to Australia
from England
on the 8th August, 1919.
After the war he returned to teaching history at the Nundle Public School. Picture
of soldier has been obtained
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Corporal (Gunner) John King Lethbridge
No: 1893/95813 - Regiment: 56th Heavy Artillery Brigade Enlisted in April,
1918 at Sydney Central Depot and entered camp at Middle Head in May, 1918. In
September, 1918 he was transferred to the 1st AIF hoping to embark overseas
but the war ended in November, 1918 before he could receive an overseas
posting. He was discharged in December, 1918. He Served in WW2 He died on the 14th June, 1971 at St Marys. Photo of soldier & Gravesite obtained
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Private Francis "FRAC' Robert Eugene Michau - No 5372 - Regiment: 20th Battalion, Australian
Imperial Forces. He enlisted on the
6th March, 1916 at Bathurst
and sailed on the "Wiltshire" on 22nd August, 1916. He was admitted to hospital in England
on the 22nd November, 1916
with pleurisy and wasn't sent to France
until the 23rd March, 1917
where he remained fighting with his 20th Battalion. On the 8th April, 1918 he
was sustained a rifle wound that had penetrated his kidney and was returned
to England
and operated on. He was invalided back to Australia
on the hospital ship "HMAHS Kanowora" on the 14th September, 1918 to the war
convalescent in Sydney. He died
on the 5th March, 1943 at
the age of 52 and is buried at St Marys, NSW. He
was born on the 15th August, 1890. Picture
of soldier has been obtained
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Signaler Bruce Fitzroy Noble - No:
2039/N43398 - Regiment: 58th Battalion/7th Reinforcements. Was the brother of
Clarence Kingsley Noble. He enlisted on 26th September, 1916 with his brother at Bathurst.
He sailed from Sydney on the
"Africa" on the 3rd November, 1916 to England
and then was transferred overseas to France
on the 29th August, 1917.
He was wounded in action on the 26th
September, 1917 and invalided back to England
on the hospital ship "Calisbrook
Castle" on the 29th October, 1917. He
returned to fight overseas until he was returned to Australia
on the 1st April, 1918. He
was born on the 9th November, 1894,
at Tullamore, NSW.
Picture of soldier has been
obtained
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Private Clarence Kingsley Noble - No:
2940 - Regiment: 58th Battalion/7th Reinforcements. Enlisted with his brother
Bruce Fitzroy Noble on 26th
September, 1916. He sailed with his brother on the "Africa"
to England
and was sent to France
on the 20th March, 1917.
He was admitted to the New Zealand Stationary
Hospital in France
suffering from very heavy shellfire. He returned to Australia
on the 1st August, 1919.
He was born at Molong, NSW on the 13th October, 1889. Picture
of soldier has been obtained
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Corporal Ewan "HUIE" Rose -
recipient of the "Croix-de-guerre" - No: 3132 Regiment: Australian
Light Trench Mortar Battalion. He enlisted at Liverpool
on the 30th July, 1916
and sailed from Sydney to Egypt
on the "Warilda" on the 8th October, 1915. He was admitted to the
hospital at Abbassia with mumps on the 27th November, 1915 and after
discharge was returned to his battalion. He was admitted to hospital more
than once and returned to Australia
on the 7th April, 1919. Died 13th October, 1945 aged 69 and is buried at St Marys, NSW. Ewan was an
Australian aborigine who was taken in by the Rose family of St Marys. Photo of
soldier & grave obtained
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Private Frederick George "DOOLEY" Royal -
Regiment: 15th Field Ambulance - later No. 2 General
Hospital - Australian Army
Medical Corps. He enlisted on the
6th November, 1914 into the 2nd Australian
General Hospital
unit. He was wounded in France
and invalided to Australia
from England
on the 5th April, 1918. He
died in 1955 aged 73 years. He was born in Penrith, NSW on the 28th July, 1882. Picture
of soldier obtained
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Private George Robert Thomson - No:2983 - Regiment: 1st AIF, 19th Battalion (B Coy), 2nd
Division, 5th Brigade, 17th Reinforcements. Sailed for France
on 25th October, 1916 on
the "Ascanius" from Sydney.
He died in 1945 aged 61 in Penrith, NSW. He was born at East
Macquarie in 1884. Picture of soldier has been obtained
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Acting Corporal George Gerald Turner -
No: 54313 - Was in the Civilian Militia - 41st infantry before the war.
Enlisted on the 30th April, 1918
at Liverpool (NSW). He sailed on 19th June, 1918 from
Sydney to London on the "HMT D60 Field Marshall" and on the 3rd
July, 1918 while still aboard, was appointed "Lance Corporal" .
From the 30th September, 1918
- 6th October, 1918 he
was admitted to Hurdcott
Military Hospital,
Fovant with Influenza and on the 4th November, 1918 he was discharged from
hospital, transferring to France
from Codford on the 25th January, 1919. On the 24th June, 1919 he embarked from France
to England
and on the 4th July, 1919
he returned to Australia
via the "H.T. Norman". He died on the 1st April, 1935 at the age of 39 years. He was
born at Penrith, NSW on 16th July,
1896. Picture of soldier obtained
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Corporal Czar Thompson -No: 1826 He was
in the Civilian Militia - 20th Infantry for 4 years before enlisting. He
enlisted on the 6th January, 1915
at Liverpool NSW He sailed to Gallipoli on the "Shropshire" from Sydney
on 17th March, 1915 and
on the 31st May, 1915 was
serving with the Anzac’s at Gallipoli. On the 7th August, 1915 he received a bullet wound and
was admitted to hospital at Alexandria
where he was then transferred on the "H.T. Caledonia" to Cairo.
On the 10th August, 1915
he was admitted to No 1 A.G.H. at Heliopolis
and was then transferred to "Luna
Park" hospital on the 12th August, 1915. On the 30th October, 1915 he rejoined
his unit at Cairo. On the 11th December, 1916 he was
promoted to Corporal at Belgium.
On the 12th December, 1916
was admitted to Bulford hospital with V.D. On the 15th June, 1918 he was admitted
to 2nd G.H. with influenza until the
18th June, 1918 when he was discharged from hospital. He returned
to Australia
on the 31st May, 1919. He
was discharged from active duty on the
14th September, 1919. He was born on the 27th September, 1896 at "Jerry's Plains,
NSW. Picture of soldier obtained
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Sergeant Francis Viney
- He won the Distinguished Conduct Medal - No:3536 -
Regiment: 11th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion, 1st Australian Brigade, 103
Howitzer Battery Australian Imperial Forces. Frank joined the Boer War from Aldershot in England
in 1901. He came to Australia
in 1913 and enlisted in the A.I.F. from St Marys
(NSW). He joined the Light Horse at Liverpool (NSW) for training, then went to Egypt
for more training where he joined the Camel Corps. He embarked with his mates
to France
where they were split up into other regiments and he became a gunner in the
artillery. Frank won his D.C.M. for shifting smoldering ammunition away from
a big stack on 23rd February, 1916.
In 1917 he was reported wounded in the head, but later recovered. Frank died 1st June, 1970 and is buried at
Rookwood cemetery. Picture of soldier obtained
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