Regimental number | 3104 |
Place of birth | Terowie, South Australia |
School | Forest Range Public School, South Australia |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Forest Range, South Australia |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 24 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Eglinton, Forest Range, South Australia |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 27th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/44/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A7 Medic on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 27th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 26 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 26 |
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 | 110 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Thomas and Elizabeth EGLINTON, Forest Range, South Australia |
Family/military connections | Brothers: 2106 Pte Lawrence EGLINTON, 50th Bn, killed in action, 2 April 1917; 1672 Pte Thomas William EGLINTON, 50th Bn, killed in action, 9 May 1918; 2023 Pte Wilfred Rowe EGLINTON, returned to Australia, 25 August 1917; 2105 Pte John Charles EGLINTON, 5th Pioneer Bn, returned to Australia, 24 August 1918.~ |
Other details |
War service: embarked from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 21 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 27 March 1916. Taken on strength, 27th Bn, France, 6 July 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 7 November 1916. Admitted to 11th Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 29 January 1917 (boils); transferred to England, 31 January 1917, and admitted to Military Hospital, Southwark, 1 February 1917. Transferred to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, 27 February 1917; discharged to furlough, 5 March 1917. Marched in to No. 3 Command Depot, Weymouth, 16 March 1917. Admitted to 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital, Bulford, 27 March 1917; discharged to Depot, 17 May 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 52 days. Proceeded overseas to France, 5 May 1917; rejoined Bn, 31 July 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |