Regimental number | 3065 |
Place of birth | Liverpool, England |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Ludlow, Young Street, East Malvern, Victoria |
Marital status | Married |
Age at embarkation | 36 |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs M Cave, Ludlow, Young Street, East Malvern, Victoria |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 5th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/22/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board RMS Osterley on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Sergeant |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 5th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
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 | 43 |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Admitted to No. 1 Auxiliary Hospital, Helouan, 17 January 1916 (abcess); to Helouan Convalescent Hospital, 17 January 1916; discharged to duty, 25 January 1916. Taken on strength, 5th Bn, 22 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 25 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 30 March 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 4 May 1916; Corporal, 4 November 1916; Lance Sergeant, 6 March 1917. Admitted to 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, 4 April 1917 (trench fever); transferred to England, 5 April 1917, and admitted to Norfolk War Hospital. Granted furlough, 9 May 1917, to report to Command Depot, Wareham, 24 May 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 20 August 1917; rejoined unit, 26 August 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Buried about 300 yards South West of Glencorse Wood. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |