Date of birth | |
Place of birth | St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria |
School | All Saints Brighton Road State School, Victoria |
Occupation | Clerk Victorian State Service |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 29 |
Height | 5' 7" |
Weight | 154 lbs |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs S.A. Ostberg, Glenfern, Hotham Street, East St Kilda, Victoria |
Previous military service | Served for 8 years in the 52nd Infantry, Victorian Scottish Regiment, Citizen Military Forces. |
Rank on enlistment | Lieutenant |
Unit name | Divisional Signal Company 3, Section 2 |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 22/13/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A39 Port Macquarie on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Captain |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 57th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 30 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, 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 | 163 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Sarah Ann OSTBERG (formerly ARAM), and the late William ARAM |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked Melbourne, 4 June 1915; disembarked Suez, 12 July 1915. Embarked Alexandria on 'Southland', 30 August 1915; ship torpedoed, 2 September 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 7 January 1916. Admitted to 7th Field Ambulance, Ismailia, 12 February 1916 (hydrocetsa). Taken on strength, 57th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 17 March 1916. Admitted to 15th Field Ambulance, Ferry Post, 4 April 1916 (dyspepsia); discharged to duty, 5 April 1916. Promoted Captain, 14 April 1916. Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 17 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 24 June 1916. Seconded for duty with 15th Training Bn, England, 18 December 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 2 July 1917; rejoined 57th Bn, in the field, 20 July 1917. Killed in action, 25 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | NAA: B2455, ARAM John Thomas Hamilton |