Regimental number | 2572 |
Place of birth | Minyip, Victoria |
Religion | Methodist |
Occupation | Fireman |
Address | Jarrahdale, Western Australia |
Marital status | Married |
Age at embarkation | 29 |
Height | 5' 7.75" |
Weight | 138 lbs |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Mabel Kate Selkirk, Jarrahdale, Western Australia |
Previous military service | Was a member of the local Rifle Club. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Provisional CPL |
Unit name | 28th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/45/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | 2nd Lieutenant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 51st Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Mention in Despatches Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette', Supplement No. 30448 (28 December 1917); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 57 (18 April 1918). |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), 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 | 154 |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Allotted to and proceeded to join 51st Bn, Tel el Kebir, 3 March 1916. Reverted to rank of Private, 4 March 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 5 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 12 June 1916. Promoted Corporal, 17 August 1916; Temporary Sergeant, 25 September 1916. Promoted 2nd Lieutenant, 8 February 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 9 June 1917; buried South of Wulverghem, Messines Road, just S.W. of Messines, Belgium. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |