Place of birth | Gayndah, Queensland |
School | Brisbane Grammar School, Queensland |
Other training | Sydney Technical College, New South Wales |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Electrical engineer |
Address | Harnsley PO, Harnsley, New South Wales |
Marital status | Married |
Age at embarkation | 40 |
Height | 5' 11" |
Weight | 176 lbs |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Constance C Caddell, Harnsley PO, Harnsley, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served for 18 months in the Transvaal Mounted Rifles; 1 year 9 months in the 39th Field Company, Australian Engineers.; Served in Field Coy 39th Engineers, Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, as 2nd Lt. |
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Rank on enlistment | Lieutenant |
Unit name | 35th Battalion, B Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/52/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Captain |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 35th Battalion |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Cross Recommendation date: |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 41 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 | 125 |
Medals |
Military Cross Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 57 Date: |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Sydney, 1 May 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 9 July 1916. Promoted Captain, 1 August 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 21 November 1916. Admitted to 9th Field Ambulance, 12 December 1916 (influenza), and transferred same day to 2nd Casualty Clearing Station; discharged to duty, 17 December 1916; rejoined unit, 19 December 1916. Appointed to temporarily command 'A' Company, 35th Bn, in place of Major Seddon, wounded, 5 January 1917. Admitted to 2nd Anzac Officers' Rest Home, 6 August 1917; discharged to duty, 13 August 1917. Extract from 3rd Division Routine Orders: 'The Major General Commanding the division brings to notice this Officer. During an enemy attack, by skilful handling of the situation and by maintaining the enthusiasm and fighting spirit of his men was largely responsible for the successful repulse of the enemy.' Awarded Military Cross. Killed in action, Belgium, 12 October 1917. Medals: Military Cross, British War Medal, Victory Medal |