Regimental number | 2662 |
Place of birth | Perth, Scotland |
Age on arrival in Australia | 23 |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Railway employee |
Address | Wakefield Street, Albion, Brisbane, Queensland |
Marital status | Married |
Age at embarkation | 25 |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Isabella Proudfoot, Wakefield Street, Albion, Brisbane, Queensland |
Previous military service | Served for 2 years in the Garrison Artillery, Forfarshire, Scotland. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 9th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/26/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 49th Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Medal 'These NCOs [also 3848 Thomas D LAVEY] kept the men together when their Officers were wounded and until reinforcement Officers came up carried on. Their work was excellent throughout the whole period.' |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 29 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 149 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: George and Jane Bryce PROUDFOOT; Wife: Isabella PROUDFOOT |
Medals |
Military Medal 'These N.C.O.s [PROUDFOOTand 3848 T.D. LAVY] kept the men together when their Officers were wounded and until reinforcement Officers came up carried on. Their work was excellent throughout the whole period.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62 Date: |
Family/military connections | Brother: 2661 Pte Robert George Henderson PROUDFOOT, 9th Bn, killed in action, 21 August 1916. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Taken on strength, 9th Bn, Mudros, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 19 November 1915, and reverted to Private. Disembarked, Alexandria, Egypt, 4 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Transferred to 49th Bn, 25 February 1916. Promoted Corporal, 13 April 1916. Embarked Alexandria, to join British Expeditionary Force, 5 June 1916; disembarked, Marseilles, France, 12 June 1916. Wounded in action, 3 September 1916. Admitted, gun shot wound, right leg, 2nd Canadian Field Ambulance, 6 September 1916; transferred to 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, 7 September 1916; marched in to 4th Australian General Base Depot, Etaples, 8 September 1916. Awarded Military Medal. Rejoined unit from wounding, 28 January 1917. Reported wounded and missing in action, 7 June 1917; subsequently confirmed by Court of Enquiry, 4 December 1917, as killed in action. Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |