Regimental number | 5473 |
Place of birth | Mount Dandenong North, Victoria |
School | Montrose State School, Victoria |
Other training | Sign-writing (Working Men's College) |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Motor mechanic |
Address | Croydon, Victoria |
Marital status | Married |
Age at embarkation | 28 |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Violet Vera Jeeves, Croydon, Victoria |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 22nd Battalion, 14th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/39/4 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A32 Themistocles on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Driver |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 6th Field Company Engineers |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Walked from top of Dandenong Range to Montrose to school, and return daily, executed a road contract at the age of sixteen, drove the Mountain mail and passenger coach to Croydon from boyhood until he became motor proprietor. He wrote from the front - "I would rather die with a little wooden cross about my head, than be one of those who could have gone and did not." (Wife) |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Villers-Bretonneux, France |
Age at death from cemetery records | 30 |
Place of burial | Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery (Plot X, Row B, Grave No. 7), Fouilloy, France |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 24 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Ellis Theobald and Eliza JEEVES; husband of Violet Vera JEEVES, Montrose, Victoria |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |