At the going down of the sun and in the morning - We Will Remember Them!
Words said all over Australia on the day we celebrate as Anzac Day.
The Bald Hills Sub-Branch members of the RSL would have said those words on many occasions, particularly more meaningful, when they were able to celebrate Anzac Day 1921 in their own Memorial Hall, on Gympie Road. Bald Hills.
William Robert Birch
Service Number: 231A
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: 4th Australian Machine Gun Company
Service: Australian Army
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 8 August 1918
Place of death: France
Age at death: 23
Place of association: Bald Hills, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
William Birch was born in Holloway in England, he enlisted at the age of 21. His occupation was Bushman, and his mother was Mrs Mercia Birch, South Wimbledon Surrey England. He enlisted on 4th January 1916.
Group portrait of the officers and NCOs of the 12th Machine Gun Company. Left to right, back row: 3518 Corporal (Cpl) A. W. Wall; 2642 Driver (Dvr) J. E. Manning; 95 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Morgan; 4452 Cpl W. Burton; 5026 Sergeant (Sgt) A. Abdullah; 2812 Sgt F. F. Wood; 2355 Cpl J. F. Coyle; 513 Cpl Thomas Michael Kinneark (killed in action 28 March 1918); 285A LCpl James Fletcher Matchett (killed in action 20 May 1918); 231A LCpl W. R. Birch (killed in action 8 August 1918); 346 LCpl E. T. Stevens (killed in action 28 March 1918)
James Robert Brown
Service Number: 3471A
Rank: Private
Unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 12 October 1917
Place of death: Belgium
Cause of death: Killed in action
Age at death: 37
Place of association: Newmarket Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
James Brown was the son of William Brown and Jane McGore. He was born 1880, he married Esther Cooper in 1903. The family had a farm called Riverview, Strathpine.
His sister Elizabeth Brown married John Stewart Junior.
Harold Edwin Carseldine
Service Number: 1019
Rank: Private
Unit: 27th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 8 October 1915
Place of death: Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey
Cause of death: Died of wounds
Place of association: Bald Hills, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
James Buchanan Crawford
Service Number: 35538
Rank: Gunner
Unit: 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 12 August 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Died of wounds
Age at death: 24
Place of association: Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Heath Cemetery, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
James was born near Sandgate and was aged almost 23 years when he enlisted. His occupation was Bank Clerk. His mother was Mrs Catherine Crawford formerly living at Sandgate then moved to Bald Hills. He was born 1893, the son of James Mains Crawford and Catherine Buchanan
Norman Edward Dixon
Service Number: 20934Rank: Sergeant
Unit: 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 5 August 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Age at death: 23
Place of association: Bald Hills, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Edward was born in 1895, and was the son of Alexander Dixon and Mary Jane Gorring. He was born in Toowoomba and was 20 when he enlisted, and was a Carpenter. His father Alexander Dixon lived at Bald Hills.
ROLL OF HONOUR.
DIXON.-In loving memory of our dearly loved son and brother, Sergeant Norman E. Dixon,
killed in action at Villiers-Bretonneau, August 5th, 1918, aged 28 years and 3 months.
He has borne his cross, he has gained his crown,
And he sleeps in a hero's grave.
We think of his life, a duty done,
Manly, unselfish, and brave.
Inserted by his loving parents and brothers,
Bald Hills.
DIXON.-In loving memory of Sergeant Norman Dixon, killed in France, August 5th, 1918.
Friends may think we have forgotten,
When at times they see us smile,
But they do not know the sorrow
That smile hides all the while.
Inserted by his sorrowing brother and sister-in-law, Alex. and Euphemia. DIXON.
Alexander Dixon married Euphemia McLachlan, and they were farmers at the North Pine
In loving memory of Sergeant Norman Dixon, killed in action, Villers Bretonneu
Private Stewart Dixon, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, Bald Hills, has been
admitted to the Quix Park Military Hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds in
the skull.
His brother, Sergeant-major Norman Dixon, is on active service in
France. 11/1917
Stewart James Dixon S/N 5001 died in 1947
Ernest George Feuerriegel
Service Number: 3413
Rank: Private
Unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 12 October 1917
Place of death: Belgium
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Bald Hills, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Ernest George Feuerriegel was born in Brisbane in 1884 and was 32 years when he enlisted in 1916. He was a saddler, and his parents were Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Feuerriegel was Annie Bertha Goeldner Bald Hills.
Burial:Passchendaele New British Cemetery
Zonnebeke Arrondissement Ieper West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium Plot: XIV. A. 12. |
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13960893
John Howard Fielding
Service Number: 747
Rank: Private
Unit: 15th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 30 April 1915
Place of death: Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Boonah, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Quinn's Post Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Quinn's Post was established on the afternoon of the 25 April by a New Zealand machine-gun crew. In the coming months, the post was held by a number of different Australian and New Zealand units and was the subject of incessant attacks and continual hand-to-hand fighting with the Turkish post opposite, who knew it as 'Bomba Sirt' (Bomb Ridge). The post was named from Major Hugh Quinn of the 15th Battalion, Australian Infantry, who was killed there during a fierce attack on 29 May. Major Quinn is buried in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery.
The original cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of 225 isolated graves, all unidentified, into Rows E to I. Rows A to D were added later. The graves from Pope's Hill Cemetery, and six other graves found later, were brought into a plot, at the north-east end. Pope's Hill Cemetery was at the foot of Pope's Hill, where the track turned up to Quinn's Post. The hill was named from Lt. Col. H. Pope, then commanding the 16th Australian Battalion, which reached it on 25 April.
There are now 473 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 294 of the burials are unidentified. Special memorials record the names of 64 soldiers, most of them Australian, who were known or believed to have been buried in Quinn's Post Cemetery or Pope's Hill Cemetery.
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea.
The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac.
Quinn’s Post was established on the afternoon of 25 April 1915 by a New Zealand machine-gun crew but was taken over by Australians the following day. On 29 April, Captain Hugh Quinn of the 15th Battalion AIF, after whom the post was named, took over command of the position that quickly earned a reputation for being the most dangerous place on Anzac.
At 2.30am on that day Chaplain Frederick Wray made the first of almost daily trips to bury the dead at Quinn’s. His diary during the early days of the campaign revealed the frequency of his visits.
April 30 – Went up to Quinn’s Corner and buried 5 men.
May 1 – Buried 1 man at Gully cemetery and 9 at Quinn’s Corner.
May 2 – Buried 7 at Gully cemetery and 3 at Quinn’s Corner
May 3 – An awful day… The 16th were enfiladed by machine guns and did not hold their trenches… the 16th lost 400 out of 600, the 13th 200… Saw a sniper get 7 out of 8 at Quinn’s Corner and he got Lt Binnie… I buried 8, including Lts Binnie and Freeman at Quinn’s Corner.
[Chaplain Frederick William Wray, PR00247, AWM
Group portrait of officers and men of E Company, 15th Battalion. Identified back row, left to right: Unidentified; 730 Private (Pte) James Edward Courtney; S. Smith; 755 Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Kenneth William Kendall; 710 L/Cpl Edward Ashton Kirby (killed in action at Gallipoli 15 June 1915); 755 Pte Francis Milton Paterson (killed in action at Gallipoli 14 May 1915); 769 Pte Kenneth Hugh McLeod (killed in action at Gallipoli 3 May 1915); 781 Pte Charles Augustus Siddons; 768 Pte Ronald McLeod (died of disease at Gallipoli 10 July 1915); 740 Pte Percy Davis (killed in action in France 4 July 1918); unidentified; 764 Alexander George McKay; 765 Pte Thomas Aubrey McKay; 747 Pte John Howard Fielding (killed in action at Gallipoli 1 May 1915).
Patrick William Hennessey
Service Number: 3174
Rank: Private
Roll title: 52 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 9 Reinforcements (April 1916 - January 1917)
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of embarkation: 23 December 1916
Place of embarkation: Sydney
Ship embarked on: HMAT Demosthenes A64
Patrick William Hennessey was born in 1880 the son of Patrick Hennessey and Mary Frances Mathews.
His place of birth was Bald Hills, and when he enlisted he was a labourer. He was wounded in France three times. Once in 1917, then twice in 1918. He was discharged from hospital in March 1919. He returned on the Guilford, and in 1922 married Ida Elizabeth McMahon. They lived in Beerburrum.
He died in 1937
Arthur Hugh Jardine
Service Number: 2398
Rank: Private
Unit: 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 24 April 1918
Place of death: France
Place of association: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, Amiens, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Arthur Hugh Jardine was born in 1886 in Brisbane, the son of Alexander William Jardine and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Mosman. Alexander Jardine was a road surveyor who surveyed the fold field route in 1868
In 1913 Arthur lived in Albion and was a surveyor and a fruit farmer. His father was employed by the Agent General in Brisbane.
His will was probated in England in 1928, his address was Sandgate near Brisbane.
Alexander William Jardine (1843 – 1920), made a trip from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia to Somerset, Queensland in 1864. Details are provided in the entry for his brother, Frank Jardine who also took part in the trip.The Royal Geographical Society rewarded the labours of the two brothers by electing them Fellows of the Society, and by awarding them the Murchison Award.
Jardine was born on 9 October 1843 near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He served on many government works in Queensland, became chief engineer for harbours and rivers and died in London on 20 March 1920.
Frederick Platten
Service Number: 2430ARank: Gunner
Unit: 11th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 24 April 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Frechencourt Communal Cemetery, Frechencourt, Amiens, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
He was born in Wingate in England and was the son of Samuel Platten. He married Annie Elizabeth Salome Eastment Platten in 1905 Annie died in 1955, she was the daughter of Edward James Eastment and Elizabeth Jane Wright, and may have family links to the Lang/Tucker Family
John Albert Rilley
Service Number: 2705Rank: Private
Unit: 46th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 18 August 1918
Place of death: France
Place of association: Bald Hills, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Fouquescourt British Cemetery, Fouquescourt, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
John Albert Rilley was born in 1894 the son of John Albert Rilley and Sarah Elizabeth Neilson. John was 22 when he enlisted and was a fisherman. His mother Sarah Rilley lived at Bald Hills Pocket, Bald Hills
Fouquescourt is a village 35 kilometres east of Amiens and 8 kilometres due north of Roye. The British Cemetery is a little north of the village on the east side of the road to Maucourt.
Fouquescourt village was captured by the 10th Canadian Infantry Brigade on 10 August 1918. Fouquescourt British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields in a wide area round the village and other burial grounds.
The cemetery contains 376 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 130 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty believed to be buried among them, and to five others buried by the Germans whose graves could not be found. The date of death in the great majority of cases is February or March 1917, or March, April or August 1918, but a few graves of 1915 will be found in Plots I and III.
Herbert James Stuckey
Service Number: 3662Rank: Sergeant
Unit: 41st Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 22 August 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Age at death: 24
Place of association: Bald Hills, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette, Bray-sur-Somme, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Herbert was born in 1894, the son of Henry Joseph Stuckey and Emma Rosina Barker. He enlisted in 1917, at that time his father had died and his mother was listed as living at Bald Hills (on the North Coast Line)
In the 1915 Electoral rolls he was living at Aspley listed as a farmer
Alexander Snellman
Service Number: 3743
Rank: Private
Unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 24 April 1918
Place of death: France
Age at death: 30
Place of association: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Alexander was born in 1888, the son of August Johnson Snellman of Ashgrove and Lillias Mary Russell.
He was listed as a carpenter.
RECRUITS IN BRISBANE. TEN OBTAINED YESTERDAY.
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Wednesday 10 October 1917 p 8 Article ... Acvin Callaghan (ESK), John Havenhand Street, John Houson Snellman, Alexander Snellman, William Charles
Twelve men offered their services at the Adelaide Street depot yesterday. Ten were declared fit, one was accepted for service, at Rabaul, and one was declared unfit. Those who offered were Bertie Wardou »Saunders, James Arthur Wedlock, Michael Acvin Callaghan (ESK), John Havenhand Street, John Houson Snellman, Alexander Snellman, William Charles Galloway Thorpe, George Child, Charles Alfred Robinson, John Ashton, Henry James Barnes, Andrew Smith.
The Recruiting Committee advises that amongst yesterdays recruits, were two clever mechanical workmen -Snellam Brothers.. Some of their experiments in wood bending with Australian woods have been remarkably successful, and they will carry home with them to London a special letter of recommendation from the State Recruiting Committee, urging the Munitions Office in London to secure their services. Both men went into camp two years ago as infantrymen. They were granted their discharge in order to enable them to proceed with the work of their inventions, but after battling along man-fully for nearly two years they have at last given way under the strain of red tape, and have gone into camp as infantry men again. A younger brother, who is also a highly skilled mechanic, went into camp a few days ago.
George Arthur Wolno
Service Number: 3016ARank: Private
Unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 14 August 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Age at death: 30
Place of association: Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: , Bray-sur-Somme, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Arthur was born in 1890 and was the son of John Wolno and his wife Mary Phillips. In the 1903 Electoral rolls John Wolno and Mary were living at Bald Hills and his occupation was a grazier.
Mrs. J. Wolno, of Rainbow Sreet, Sandgate, has received the sad news that her son, Private Arthur Wolno, was killed in action on August 14. Private Wolno was a native of Bald Hills. He was also very popular in the Esk district, where he resided for a number of years prior to enlisting, two and a half years ago.
Leonard Gordon Wright
Service Number: 1543
Rank: Private
Unit: 26th Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 4 October 1917
Place of death: Belgium
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Nundah, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
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The information regarding the Servicemen courtesy Australian War Museum and National Archives, cemetery photos, from CWG commission, and from our personal collection.
The most humbling and emotional experience that one can have is to walk in the footsteps of those men and women in Galliopoli and the Western Front.
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Bald Hills, Queensland. A WWI War Memorial Hall.
From the research of Garth Carseldine for the Centenary of Bald Hills in 1957
Returned Servicemen
When early in August, 1914, this young country was called upon to fight for freedom, the youth of Bald Hills was not backward in offering themselves to the services of their country.
Of the sixty that served, 17 paid the supreme sacrifice. Bald Hills is also proud of the fact that two Military Medals were awarded to her boys for bravery in the field. These were awarded to Lance Corporals H. Williamson (9th Battalion) and Clarrie Smith.
In the 1920 Soldier's Settlement was opened and many of the Bald Hills ex-servicemen won ballots but unfortunately the settlement was not a success - mainly on account of the smallness of the blocks. Many of the residents of Bald Hills are descendants of those ex-servicemen who won blocks at that ballot.
One of the most colourful figures in Bald Hills' history was that of Gus Davies - a full blooded aborigine who was a serviceman in the 1st World War and resided on the soldiers' settlement until his recent death. He was always prominent at the Anzac Day Parade.
The residents of Bald Hills recognised service of their soldiers with a Memorial Hall which was opened in August 1921.
When in 1939 War was again threatening the younger generation carried on the tradition of "old" soldiers.
Unfortunately they are spread far and wide and it has been impossible to list their names. In tribute to them a Memorial Wall has been erected in front of the Memorial Hall.
Those on the List
It is unknown when the Names were recorded on the Honour Board, no doubt in the period
after 1945, and before 1957.
Names on the Honour Board in Bald Hills
Memorial Hall of Those who served in the Great War 1914 1918
Beard William 20900
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Birch William Robert 231A
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Brown J R
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Brown D
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Bunkum Harry 20916
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Carseldine Edmund Joseph 1705
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Carseldine George William 44
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Carseldine Harold Edwin 1019
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Collard H
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Cullimore William 44
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Crawford James Buchanan 35538
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Davis Walter 20939
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Dixon Norman Edward 20934
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Dixon Stewart James 5001.
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Ferguson Rennie Neil 25th Bat
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Feuerriegel Ernest George 3413
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Fielding Frank 56
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Fielding John Howard 747
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Fielding Geoffrey Victor 5853
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Fox Edward Bernard 3238
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Fox H
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Fraser J
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Gamble Charles Robert 8863
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Gamble John William 3414
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Gatehouse Alfred Cecil 13981
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Hennessey Patrick William 3174
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Howard C
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James D
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Jardine Arthur Hugh 2398
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Johnson S.J
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King Percy John 824
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Latham Harold Stewart 6217
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Latham John Stewart 628
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Latham William Alfred 256
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Michael E
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Platten Frederick 2430
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Powell A
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Rilby H
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Rilley John Albert 2705
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Robertson J
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Robson Thomas
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Ryan E
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Ryan Victor William 4831
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Simpson A.D
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Smith J
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Snellman Alexander 3743
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Snellman George 3745
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Snellman John Jonson 3744
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Stewart Allan Duncan McGaw 7131.
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Stone Henry James 2484
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Stuckey Herbert .James 3662
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Taylor Albert .Frederick Clarence 3711
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Thompson J
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Wilde Norman Robert 3714
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William PJG
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Williamson Harry 2469
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Wolno Arthur 3016
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Wright Leonard Gordon 1543
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Young A
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Young Montrose Markam Stanley .
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John Fraser 3636 a Teamster may be the J. Fraser mentioned
Harry Fox 793 A railway worker may be H Fox
Not listed:
· Septumis Williamson School Teacher born in Bald Hills 4277
· Clarence Leslie Smith 7051
Thomas Robson is mention in the Memorial Hall Tribute
Service Number: 3678
Rank: Private
Unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 24 April 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Lutwyche, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Thomas Robson, has been referred to in the Memorial Tree Planting Page.
Family links:
Duncan Stewart Carseldine from Kilcoy was Service Number 8. He enlisted November 1915
Thomas Robson is mention in the Memorial Hall Tribute
Archibald James Norris
Rank: Private
Unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 24 April 1918
Place of death: France
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Lutwyche, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
He was killed in action in WWI, he had married, and was not listed on any of the Bald Hills monuments. Alexander and Isabel Norris were the parents
Thomas Robson, has been referred to in the Memorial Tree Planting Page.
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Everyone whose name is recorded has some sort of relationship with the Bald Hills area. Some had parents who lived in Sandgate, Aspley, Or the Pine Rivers area, of Strathpine and Lawnton.
There were railway workers, labourers, farm hands, fisherman, teamsters, all local boys often working on their parent's farms. Some were commissioned officers, mostly they were just boys, all willing to serve. and some enlisting almost from day one, with very low Service Number.
Some cannot be confirmed, as to the relationships, sometimes it was family links that tied them together.
The Carseldine family had three members who served. Harold Edwin and George William Carseldine were the sons of Joseph Carseldine and his wife Sarah Prothero. Harold died at Gallipoli in 1915.
Edmund Joseph Carseldine was the son of Jonathan Carseldine and his wife Mary Wood Buckby.
Thomas and Louisa Fielding had 3 sons enlist. In 1903 he was the school master at Bald Hills State School.
Three boys from the Snellman family enlisted, Alexander, George and John Joseph.
John Joseph enlisted in West Australia. They were particularly clever men.
Private J.J. Snellman is seated, with his cane on the back of a chair. He is wearing a Field Service hat, puttees. No AIF badges are visible.
John Snellman wrote a book "A Message of Hope", and he was the author of numerous articles in the West Australian Press voicing his viewpoint.
The boys all enjoyed good education, winning scholarships for Brisbane schools.
A researcher friend of mine who has is researching every soldier who lived in West Australia who served in World War I provided me with some links for John Joseph Snellman, whose photo is at West Australia archives.
She researched them for The Soldiers of Barrack Street.
"He enlisted from here and then requested discharge so he could work on a new machine gun design with his brother (Alexander ) who'd enlisted from Queensland. Both were given leave. Albert was later KIA. John, who enlisted for a second time in Queensland in 1917, stayed in England, as you'll have seen. He married there and tinkered on his various patents during WWII and died there in his dotage. Check out this gorgeous shot of him, here. There's another one of him up there, too."
http://innopac.slwa.wa.gov.au/search~S2?/Ysnellman&searchscope=2&SORT=D/Ysnellman&searchscope=2&SORT=D&SUBKEY=snellman/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=Ysnellman&searchscope=2&SORT=D&1%2C1%2C
http://innopac.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1909660
S.L.
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A Story from one who was there. He was in the 9th, the same Battalion as my Great Uncle, they probably knew each other! One came home.
The landing, injured waiting, the hospital in Mena (was a hotel) and the camp before leaving for Gallipoli.
Private W. A Latham, a son of Mr. S Latham, ot Murgon, and a grandson of the late Mr John Stewart, of Bald Hills, has forwarded an interesting letter to friends in Brisbane. Private Latham has a brother and three cousins at the Front.
He writes from Mena House Hospital, Cairo: - I am just taking the opportunity of dropping you a few lines, as it is the only thing I can find to do to pass away the long dreary hours in hospital. My face all the time we were in Egypt would have put you in mind of a carpet snake, it was that scaly.
It was no easy matter sitting down in your tent trying to write using your knee for a table, and very often about half a dozen of us writing around one table, and the rest of the chaps calling you all the names they could think of because you wouldn't put the light out so that they could sleep.
The names they called you wouldn't be found in the Bible, either. You don't know how a fellow longs for letters when you get so far away from the land of your birth, especially when there's a mighty big chance of you never seeing theold places again.
I don't know if you know that I have been wounded at the Dardanelles three weeks ago tomorrow. But before I tell you about it I will describe where we went after we left Egypt. It was to a small Island off the main-land of Greece-Lemnos' Island.
It is one of the prettiest spots in tho world; I will come to our last day on the island - Saturday, April 24. At about 10 o'clock one of the destroyers came alongside our ship, the -----------. and took A and B Companies of the good old 9th on board, and then transferred us on to the cruiser.
We got on board about 11.30, and shortly after wards we set sail, bound for the Dardanelles or, I should say, Gallipoli.
After careful cruising we arrived within a few miles of our destination; this would be about 1 o clock on Sunday morning, this never to be forgotten 25th.
The next thing to be done was to get all the troops out into the lifeboats that were later to take them ashore. This work took some considerable time. At last they were all strung out waiting the signal to move. But no! It seemed that we must wait till the good old moon got clean out of sight. It was shining out most splendidly in all its glory as though nothing was about to happen out there but an awful lot happened before that moon shone out in all its glory again.
About 3 o clock it was quite dark, and we were off to force our landing on Gallipoli and to certain death for a lot of our fellows. A glorious morning was breaking not a cloud to be seen in the sky. The silence was getting unbearable there wasn't a sound of a whisper to be heard anywhere, only the gentle lap lap of the water against the sides of our boats.
If the Heads were never satisfied with the discipline our chaps used to show while in training, they had nothing whatever to complain of now-when it was the real thing there was no such thing as smoking and striking matches. It was as calm as anyone could have wished for. We distinguished the land pointing out ahead but the strain on one's nerves was getting intolerable, still there wasn't a murmur from a solitary soul.
By this time we were within half a mile of land and still everything was quite peaceful but I think the same thing was on every one's mind. How much longer will it be so ? We got within a hundred yards of the shore and still never a shot was fired. On, on we went until the pinnace cast us off, and the lads on the oars were rowing for dear life, when pif! pir! bang! bang! they were at us and were quite helpless to defend ourselves. At last we got the order from our young lieutenant.
Down oars boy's and get out of the boats and soon as you possibly can and for God's sake get under cover! The awful strain was over now with a cheer every man was under the sides of the boats and waist deep into the water, going for dear life away up the sides of the awful cliffs we had to climb to get near the enemy. On, on, we went always on. There was no going back and no one thought of going back.
It was on and up up these cliffs at all cost grabbing, at every shrub it was possible to get hold of to help one up, just stopping long enough to got one's wind, and then on, and on. The fire was something fearful by now; we would be about 50 yards up the cliff from the beach. It was nothing but a din and roar - men laughing one minute and swearing vengance on the first Turk they could get their bayonet into next as they saw a mate throw up his arms and roll over dead.
The bullets were simply raining on us like hail from a hailstorm. We were about 200 yards from the beach, when bang!' A bullet had gone right through my right thigh. On I went behind my Lieutenant but the pain in my leg was getting awful. I couldn't walk, I could only crawl along, I went about 10 yards after being hit when I came to a very steep place so there was nothing else to do but to drop out of the fray without the pleasure of putting my rifle to my shoulder.
I was knocked out of action in as many hours as I had waited months for. It was still dark when I dropped out of action and I was the first man in my Platoon No C to be hit. I hadn't been knocked out long when the lads were to the top of the slopes. I could tell that yell anywhere-the good old yell of the boys in a bayonet charge. They captured many trenches on that memorable day. I can't tell you very much of what happened after daylight, only what I have been told by my mates.
I had my leg dressed by one of our stretcher bearers and I lay in the one place for about five solid hours. The pain had my leg doubled right up, and I did not dare to move. The opposition we had to compete against included shrapnel, machine guns quickfirers Howitzers and artillery, and we only had the rifle and bayonet but against these terrible odds we won the day. In the early part of the morning the Navy had done wonders, amongst the Turks forts, putting most of them out of action in a few hours.
The seaplanes also did great work among the enemy dropping bombs on them. I had to crawl back to the beach as the Field Ambulance would never have found me where I was lying. About a dozen men got knocked out only about a chain away from where I was lying and a bullet landed about 3 in from my head. So I thought to myself this is no good to yours truly. I'm going to make a move out of this.
If I die in the attempt I made a start to crawl up slight gully that was a little way off. The engineers were working there making a place for stores and when they saw me crawling along two of them came down and carried me back to where they were working. I didn't trouble very much by then what happened as I was getting weak from loss of blood. I went to sleep there and I was quite silly in the head when some Ambulance chaps woke me up to take me ashore.
On the hospital ship I don't remember anything after I had my wound dressed by the doctor till about 5 o clock in the afternoon. I went to sleep and when I woke up there was a most terrific bombardment going on and the din was terrible. The cruisers were all firing their guns and at every shot our ship fairly quivered. We set sail for Alexandria about 6 o'clock. I can't speak highly enough of the treatment I have received at the hands of the doctors and nurses. I am doing splendidly now and I think I will be back in the firing line by the end of the month
The 1957 Centenary Brochure makes mention of Gus Davies.
Mr Snellman, their father was active in the community of Bald Hills
The below list indicates the names of additional servicemen, these have indicated they were born in Bald Hills, others may have been born in different locations.
The below list indicates the names of additional servicemen, these have indicated they were born in Bald Hills, others may have been born in different locations.
Harold
Edwin Carseldine
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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1019
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Agnes
Carseldine
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William
Cullimore
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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44
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Mrs
Cullimore
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Walter
Davis
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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20939
|
Henry
Davis
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Albert
Day
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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3039A
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W Day
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|
James
Ross Duncan
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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Miss A
Duncan
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John
Thomas Hammer
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
|
6131
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Mary
Hammer
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|
Albert
Victor Lacey
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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155
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Mary
Lacey
|
|
Ernest
Wilbert Lacey
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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509
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Marie
Jensine Lacey
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|
John
Stewart Latham
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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628
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Samuel
Latham
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|
William
Alfred Latham
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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256
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Samuel
Latham
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|
John
Albert Rilley
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
|
2705
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Sarah
Elizabeth Rilley
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|
William
James Service
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
|
R
Service
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||
Allan
Duncan McGaw Stewart
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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7131
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John
Stewart
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Stephen
Hertford Weedon
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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Stephen
Henry Weedon
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||
Henry
Thomas Wigley
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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193
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E Lade
|
|
Septimus
Williamson
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Bald
Hills, Queensland
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4277
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Elizabeth
Eleanor Williamson
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A Story from one who was there. He was in the 9th, the same Battalion as my Great Uncle, they probably knew each other! One came home.
The landing, injured waiting, the hospital in Mena (was a hotel) and the camp before leaving for Gallipoli.
LATHAM William Alfred : Service
Number - 256 : Place of Birth - Bald Hills QLD : Place of Enlistment - Gympie
QLD : Next of Kin - (Father) LATHAM Samuel
S/N 256
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2 September 1914, Gympie, Queensland
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Lieutenant
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Bald Hills, Queensland, 26 January 1887
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Murgon,
South Burnett, Queensland
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Farmer
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Natural Causes, Sandgate, Queensland, 15 July 1966, aged
79 years
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WITH OUR BOYS. MORE LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.
"AGAINST THOSE TERRIBLE ODDS WE WON THE DAY."
He writes from Mena House Hospital, Cairo: - I am just taking the opportunity of dropping you a few lines, as it is the only thing I can find to do to pass away the long dreary hours in hospital. My face all the time we were in Egypt would have put you in mind of a carpet snake, it was that scaly.
It was no easy matter sitting down in your tent trying to write using your knee for a table, and very often about half a dozen of us writing around one table, and the rest of the chaps calling you all the names they could think of because you wouldn't put the light out so that they could sleep.
The names they called you wouldn't be found in the Bible, either. You don't know how a fellow longs for letters when you get so far away from the land of your birth, especially when there's a mighty big chance of you never seeing theold places again.
I don't know if you know that I have been wounded at the Dardanelles three weeks ago tomorrow. But before I tell you about it I will describe where we went after we left Egypt. It was to a small Island off the main-land of Greece-Lemnos' Island.
It is one of the prettiest spots in tho world; I will come to our last day on the island - Saturday, April 24. At about 10 o'clock one of the destroyers came alongside our ship, the -----------. and took A and B Companies of the good old 9th on board, and then transferred us on to the cruiser.
We got on board about 11.30, and shortly after wards we set sail, bound for the Dardanelles or, I should say, Gallipoli.
After careful cruising we arrived within a few miles of our destination; this would be about 1 o clock on Sunday morning, this never to be forgotten 25th.
The next thing to be done was to get all the troops out into the lifeboats that were later to take them ashore. This work took some considerable time. At last they were all strung out waiting the signal to move. But no! It seemed that we must wait till the good old moon got clean out of sight. It was shining out most splendidly in all its glory as though nothing was about to happen out there but an awful lot happened before that moon shone out in all its glory again.
About 3 o clock it was quite dark, and we were off to force our landing on Gallipoli and to certain death for a lot of our fellows. A glorious morning was breaking not a cloud to be seen in the sky. The silence was getting unbearable there wasn't a sound of a whisper to be heard anywhere, only the gentle lap lap of the water against the sides of our boats.
If the Heads were never satisfied with the discipline our chaps used to show while in training, they had nothing whatever to complain of now-when it was the real thing there was no such thing as smoking and striking matches. It was as calm as anyone could have wished for. We distinguished the land pointing out ahead but the strain on one's nerves was getting intolerable, still there wasn't a murmur from a solitary soul.
By this time we were within half a mile of land and still everything was quite peaceful but I think the same thing was on every one's mind. How much longer will it be so ? We got within a hundred yards of the shore and still never a shot was fired. On, on we went until the pinnace cast us off, and the lads on the oars were rowing for dear life, when pif! pir! bang! bang! they were at us and were quite helpless to defend ourselves. At last we got the order from our young lieutenant.
Down oars boy's and get out of the boats and soon as you possibly can and for God's sake get under cover! The awful strain was over now with a cheer every man was under the sides of the boats and waist deep into the water, going for dear life away up the sides of the awful cliffs we had to climb to get near the enemy. On, on, we went always on. There was no going back and no one thought of going back.
It was on and up up these cliffs at all cost grabbing, at every shrub it was possible to get hold of to help one up, just stopping long enough to got one's wind, and then on, and on. The fire was something fearful by now; we would be about 50 yards up the cliff from the beach. It was nothing but a din and roar - men laughing one minute and swearing vengance on the first Turk they could get their bayonet into next as they saw a mate throw up his arms and roll over dead.
The bullets were simply raining on us like hail from a hailstorm. We were about 200 yards from the beach, when bang!' A bullet had gone right through my right thigh. On I went behind my Lieutenant but the pain in my leg was getting awful. I couldn't walk, I could only crawl along, I went about 10 yards after being hit when I came to a very steep place so there was nothing else to do but to drop out of the fray without the pleasure of putting my rifle to my shoulder.
I was knocked out of action in as many hours as I had waited months for. It was still dark when I dropped out of action and I was the first man in my Platoon No C to be hit. I hadn't been knocked out long when the lads were to the top of the slopes. I could tell that yell anywhere-the good old yell of the boys in a bayonet charge. They captured many trenches on that memorable day. I can't tell you very much of what happened after daylight, only what I have been told by my mates.
I had my leg dressed by one of our stretcher bearers and I lay in the one place for about five solid hours. The pain had my leg doubled right up, and I did not dare to move. The opposition we had to compete against included shrapnel, machine guns quickfirers Howitzers and artillery, and we only had the rifle and bayonet but against these terrible odds we won the day. In the early part of the morning the Navy had done wonders, amongst the Turks forts, putting most of them out of action in a few hours.
The seaplanes also did great work among the enemy dropping bombs on them. I had to crawl back to the beach as the Field Ambulance would never have found me where I was lying. About a dozen men got knocked out only about a chain away from where I was lying and a bullet landed about 3 in from my head. So I thought to myself this is no good to yours truly. I'm going to make a move out of this.
If I die in the attempt I made a start to crawl up slight gully that was a little way off. The engineers were working there making a place for stores and when they saw me crawling along two of them came down and carried me back to where they were working. I didn't trouble very much by then what happened as I was getting weak from loss of blood. I went to sleep there and I was quite silly in the head when some Ambulance chaps woke me up to take me ashore.
On the hospital ship I don't remember anything after I had my wound dressed by the doctor till about 5 o clock in the afternoon. I went to sleep and when I woke up there was a most terrific bombardment going on and the din was terrible. The cruisers were all firing their guns and at every shot our ship fairly quivered. We set sail for Alexandria about 6 o'clock. I can't speak highly enough of the treatment I have received at the hands of the doctors and nurses. I am doing splendidly now and I think I will be back in the firing line by the end of the month
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933) Thursday 1 July 1915 p 9 Article
... ." Private W. A Latham, a son of Mr. S Latham, ot Murgon, and a grandson of the late Mr John Stewart, of Bald ... Hills, has forwarded an interesting letter to friends in Brisbane. Private Latham has a broth
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| Anzac Cove |
The 1957 Centenary Brochure makes mention of Gus Davies.
Private
Augustus Hodgkinson Davies was born approx 1885 in Port Douglas. He
enlisted 25th May 1917, was married to Esther Evelyn Smith in 1912 and had two
children. He was a station hand.
His
serial number was 3282 in World War I. He
embarked from Sydney on the 27th August 1917, in the 41st Battalion, and
returned on the Balmoral Castle on 1st February 1918. He was discharged for having "rheumatism
and flat feet" He served at Fovant
in France and spent time in hospital in England.
In
1940 he signed on again, and was living on the Soldiers Settlement at Bald
Hills. His number Q187467 He did not serve overseas.
He
died in August 1955.
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| At the RNA Show 1937 |
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| Park named in his honour in Bald Hills |
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