| Regimental number | 11548 |
| Date of birth | |
| Place of birth | Hillston, New South Wales |
| School | Sydney High School, New South Wales |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Surveyor |
| Address | c/- Canon Verso, The Vicarage, Berrigan, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 25 |
| Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Myrel Verso, 'Begelly', Viller Street, Grafton, New South Wales |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Gunner |
| Unit name | 5th Field Artillery Brigade, Reinforcement 3 |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 13/33/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board RMS Osterley on |
| Regimental number from Nominal Roll | Commissioned |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lieutenant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Promotions |
2nd Lieutenant Promotion date: Lieutenant Promotion date: |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 27 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), 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 | 13 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Son of Jacob and Florence Verso; husband of Myrel T Verso of 'Begelly', Viller Street, Grafton, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Taken on strength, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, 19 February 1916; transferred to 5th Artillery Brigade, 10 March 1916. Promoted Sergeant, 1 April 1916. Appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 17 May 1917; transferred to 6th Field Artillery Brigade, 9 June 1917. Promoted Lieutenant, 18 August 1917. Taken on strength, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, 11 September 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal ~ |