Regimental number | 5681 |
Place of birth | Toowong, Queensland |
School | Toowong and Taringa State Schools and Brisbane Boys Grammar School, Queensland |
Other training | Medicine, University of Queensland. |
Religion | Baptist |
Occupation | Student |
Address | High Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 20 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Louisa Emily Simmonds, High Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 25th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/42/4 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 25th Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Was an instructor in physical and bayonet training between May and July 1917. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Zonnebeke, Belgium |
Age at death | 21.7 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 21 |
Place of burial | Tyne Cot Cemetery (Plot XXII, Row G, Grave No. 8), Passchendaele, Belgium |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 106 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated on University of Queensland Roll of Honour ('Pro Patria Ceciderunt'; They fell for their Country), St Lucia, Queensland. Parents: Frederick and Louisa SIMMONDS, Ebor Street, High Street, Toowong, Queensland |
Family/military connections | Uncle: Sir S.A. PETHERBRIDGE, Rabaul Administrator; Cousins: 393B Pte Lyle Vincent D'Oyley PRICE, 2nd Machine Gun Bn, killed in action, 9 July 1918; 3409 Pte Owen Bennion PRICE, 42nd Bn, killed in action, 9 August 1918. |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |