Regimental number | 1132 |
Place of birth | Ballarat, Victoria |
Religion | Methodist |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | 337 Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 21 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs. Isabel D'Angree, 337 Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Victoria |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 31st Battalion, C Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/48/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on |
31st Battalion Headquarters and Companies A, B, C and D sailed on two ships, HMAT A62 Wandilla, 9th November 1915 from Melbourne, and HMAT A41 Bakara, 5 November 1915, from Melbourne. It is not possible to tell from the Embarkation Roll on which ship an individual embarked. | |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A41 Bakara on |
31st Battalion Headquarters and Companies A, B, C and D sailed on two ships, HMAT A62 Wandilla, 9th November 1915 from Melbourne, and HMAT A41 Bakara, 5 November 1915, from Melbourne. It is not possible to tell from the Embarkation Roll on which ship an individual embarked. | |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 31st Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 25 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), 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 | 118 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: William Natal and Isabella D'ANGRI. |
Family/military connections | Brother: 689 Sapper William Noel D'ANGRI, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company, 12 May 1918. |
Other details |
War service: disembarked Suez, 7 December 1915. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 17 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 25 June 1916. Wounded in action, 21 July 1916 (gun shot wound, right thigh); admitted to 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 21 July 1916; transferred to England, 21 July 1916, and admitted to General Military Hospital, Colchester, 22 July 1916. Discharged from No. 3 Auxiliary Hospital, 17 November 1916, and granted furlough until 2 December 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 31 December 1916; rejoined unit, 4 January 1917. Appointed Lance Corporal, 2 March 1917. Admitted to 6th Field Ambulance, 23 March 1917 (tonsillitis); transferred to England, 18 April 1917 (diptheria), and admitted to Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 18 April 1917. Discharged to No. 3 Auxiliary Hospital, 30 April 1917; granted furlough, 11 June 1917, to report to No. 3 Command Depot, Hurdcott, 25 June 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 4 August 1917; rejoined unit, 21 August 1917. Promoted Corporal, 30 August 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 26 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Miscellaneous details | Name given on Embarkation Roll as Warman D'ANGREE. |