Regimental number | 1016 |
Place of birth | Bendigo, Victoria |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Farm labourer |
Address | Glengarry, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 26 |
Height | 5' 6.5" |
Weight | 160 lbs |
Next of kin | Friend, G Waltham, Glengarry, Victoria |
Previous military service | Served in the 92nd infantry, Citizen Military Forces. |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Sale, Victoria |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 39th Battalion, C Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/56/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 10th Training Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 27 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 | 132 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Native of Bendigo, Victoria |
Discharge date | |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Melbourne, 30 September 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 21 November 1916. Marched in to 3rd Training Bn, Perham Downs, 22 November 1916. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 24 December 1916 (pyrexia unknown origin); transferred to Military Hospital, Tidworth, 2 January 1917 (contact meningitis); marched in to 3rd Training Bn from hospital, 11 January 1917. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 13 April 1917 (pyrexia unknown origin); discharged to duty, 23 April 1917; marched in to 3rd Training Bn, 16 May 1917. Qualified as 1st Class Signaller at Class Test of Signal Group Headquarters, 6 June 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 18 October 1917; taken on strength, 12th Bn, 10 November 1917. Admitted to hospital, 19 November 1918; rejoined unit, 27 January 1919 (no further details recorded). On leave to United Kingdom, 8 December 1918; rejoined unit from leave, 30 December 1918. Marched out to England for return to Australia, 27 March 1919. Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Ormonde', 16 June 1919; disembarked Melbourne, 1 August 1919; discharged, Hobart, 26 September 1919. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |