| Regimental number | 2519 |
| Place of birth | Stafford, Staffordshire, England |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Waiter |
| Address | Northern Rivers Hotel, Erskine Street, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 39 |
| Height | 5' 8" |
| Weight | 147 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs E Wilde, Trenton, New Jersey, USA |
| Previous military service | Served in the Royal Irish Rifles for 9 years 244 days; in the Mounted Constabulary, South Africa, for 2 years 2 months 21 days: discharged by purchase. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 17th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/34/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A32 Themistocles on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Sergeant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 17th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| 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 | 84 |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Embarked from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 20 May 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 26 May 1916. Promoted Lance Corporal, 1 July 1916; Temporary Corporal, 10 August 1916; Corporal, 1 November 1916. Admitted to 1/1 South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, 12 February 1917; transferred to 11th General Hospital, Camiers, 14 February 1917 (piles); to 6th Convalescent Depot, Etaples, 28 February 1917; to 5th Convalescent Depot, Cayeux, 11 April 1917; discharged to Base Details, 18 April 1917;rejoined 17th Bn, 2 May 1917. Appointed Lance Sergeant,3 May 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Postal Address:
Po Box 7916
Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
Northcott Drive,
Campbell, ACT 2600
