Regimental number | 17 |
Place of birth | Armadale near Melbourne, Victoria |
School | Fiske's Academy, Surhiton, Surrey, England |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Stockman |
Address | Kuyura, Dalby, Queensland |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 27 |
Next of kin | Father, Henry Joseph Mouritz, Box 121, P.O., Chicago, USA |
Previous military service | Served several years with South Africa's Mounted Police. |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Headquarters |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 10/7/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board A15 Star Of England on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 2nd a Light Horse Regiment |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | He left Aust for England in 1894 and returned to Australia in 1913. Was a first-class ornitholigist, and wrote several booklets on the birds of Rhodesia and was a member of the Rhodesian Scientific Assn, British Ornithologists Union and South Africa Ornithologists' Union. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll) | *Date of Fate unclear/Leofwin Beresford |
Place of death or wounding | Gallipoli, Turkey |
Age at death | 27 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 2), Gallipoli, Turkey The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey. The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank. The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 3 |
Family/military connections | Had several cousins in the AIF. |