Regimental number | 2355 |
Place of birth | Hackwell, London, England |
School | Public School, Queensland |
Age on arrival in Australia | 7 |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Station hand |
Address | Hughenden, Queensland |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 21 |
Next of kin | Brother, J G Chiverton, Bush Inn, Ovington |
Previous military service | None |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 9th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/26/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Somme, France |
Age at death | 24 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 31), 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 | 177 |
Other details |
War service: joined 9th Bn at Mudros, 18 November 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 4 January 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Transferred to 49th Bn, 25 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 5 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 12 June 1916. Attached to 13th Machine Gun Company, 28 July 1916; transferred to 13th Machine Gun Company, 1 November 1916. On leave to England, 21 December 1916. Sick while on leave, 4 January 1917 (hernia), and admitted to 1st Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield; discharged to No. 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 16 February 1917. Marched into Machine Gun Training Depot, Grantham, 6 May 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 5 June 1917; rejoined unit, 16 June 1917. Killed in action, 26 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |