Regimental number | 57 |
Date of birth | |
Place of birth | Sydney, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Publisher |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 20 |
Next of kin | Mother, Catherine Cotter, 2 Selwyn, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served for 4 years in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve. |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Able Bodied Driver |
Unit name | 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | MIS34.12.1.RANBT1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board A39 Port Macquarie on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Gunner |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 14th Field Artillery Brigade |
Fate | Killed in Action |
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 | 18 |
Other details |
War service: arrived Lemnos, 21 July 1915. Disembarked Alexandria from Mudros, 20 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Admitted to 1st Australian stationary Hospital, Ismailia, 16 February 1916; transferred to 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 18 February 1916 (malaria: serious); to Choubra Infectious Hospital, 29 February 1916; to 3rd Auziliary Hospital, Heliopolis, 21 March 1916; to Ras el Tin Convalescent Camp, 23 March 1916. Rejoined RANBT, Kubri West, 12 May 1916. Transferred to Artillery as Gunner, No. 57. Embarked for Marseilles, 3 June 1917. Taken on strength, Australian Artillery Training Depot, England, 14 June 1917. Found guilty, 23 June 1917, of being absent without leave, 0600, 23 June, to 2100, 26 June 1917: awarded 5 days' confinement to barracks and forfeiture of 4 days' pay. Proceeded overseas to France, 8 August 1917; taken on strength, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, and posted to 55th Battery, 13 August 1917. Killed in action, 1 October 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |