Regimental number | 1261 |
Place of birth | Yapton, Sussex, England |
School | St John's, Oakfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England |
Age on arrival in Australia | 21 |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Farm labourer |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 27 |
Next of kin | Mother, Mrs E Nash, 4 High Parksquare, Oakfield, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 4th Light Horse Regiment, 9th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 10/9/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Attestation Form gives place of birth as Littlehampton, Sussex, England. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Messines, Belgium |
Age at death | 27 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 27 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), 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 | 9 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: John and Elizabeth NASH, 4 High Park Square, Oakfield, Ryde, Isle of Wight, England |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Posted to and taken on strength, B Squadron, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Heliopolis, 2 January 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 21 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 27 March 1916. Transferred to 2nd Anzac Mounted Regiment, 7 July 1916. Proceeded on leave, 31 December 1916; returned from leave, 13 January 1917. Detached for duty with New Zealand Division, 16 April 1917; returned from detachment, 22 April 1917. Missing in action (believed killed), 7 June 1917; confirmed as killed in action, 7 June 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |