Regimental number | 3051 |
Place of birth | Glen Innes, New South Wales |
School | Barker College, Hornsby, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Station hand |
Address | Nurrabar, Warringi Street, Turramurra, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 22 |
Height | 6' 0.5" |
Weight | 170 lbs |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs E Glennie, Nurrabar, Warringi Street, Turramurra, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served 1.6 years in the Senior Cadets, Barker College, Sydney, New South Wales; Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Liverpool, New South Wales |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 2nd Battalion, 10th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/19/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A69 Warilda on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Gunner |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 14th Field Artillery Brigade |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 24 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 23 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), 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 | 18 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Charles and Eva GLENNIE, Waratah Road, Mangrove Mount, Gosford, New South Wales. Nataive of Glen Innes, New South Wales |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Joined 2nd Bn, Tel el Kebir, 21 January 1916. Transferred to 54th Bn, 14 February 1916; to 5th Divisional Artillery, 16 March 1916, and posted to 56th Battery; to 55th Battery. Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 20 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 30 June 1916. On leave, 17 July 1917; rejoined unit from leave, 31 July 1917. Killed in action, 30 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |