Regimental number | 35 |
Place of birth | Hampstead, London, England |
School | St Andrew's Church School, Hampstead, England |
Age on arrival in Australia | 24 |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Fireman |
Address | .... |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 32 |
Height | 5' 6" |
Weight | 128 lbs |
Next of kin | Mrs Sarah Ulph, 58 Richards Buildings, Brunswick Square, London, England |
Previous military service | Served in the King's Royal Rifles, in Boer War and 8 years in India. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 9th Battalion, Headquarters |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/26/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board Transport A5 Omrah on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 47th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 38 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 38 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), 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 | 144 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: John Edward and Susannah ULPH, 58 Dickens Buildings, Russell Square, London, England. Native of Hampstead, London, England |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Gallipoli Campaign), 2 March 1915. Admitted to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 29 October 1915; transferred to Gibraltar, 7 November 1915, and admitted to General Hospital; to England, 23 November 1915, and admitted to Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol, 28 November 1915. Arrived at Command Depot, Weymouth, 4 January 1916, for transfer to Egypt. Transferred to 47th Bn, Serapeum, 23 April 1916; joined 47th Bn, 29 April 1916. Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 2 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 9 June 1916. Promoted Temporary Corporal, 11 September 1916; Corporal, 9 November 1916. On leave to England, 20 August 1917; returned from leave, 7 September 1917. Reported as wounded in action, 12 October 1917. Court of Enquiry, 11 March 1918, confirmed fate as 'killed in action', 12 October 1917. Buried 1000 yards SW of Passchendaele, 1000 yards NE of Zonnebeke; grave subsequently lost. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | NAA: B2455, ULPH Alfred R |