Mapping our Anzacs scrapbook

This man was my family, i am only young but i will always remember him. When i go to Canberra, i will put a poppy next to his name. Lest we forget

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My Grandmother’s second husband.

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This is my Father’s elder Brother, he enlisted under a false name. His real name was Thomas Betram. He was killed in Belgium and buried under his real name.

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This is my Father, he was discharged when his Mother kicked up a fuss because he was underage (16 at the time)

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Cedric Murray Samson was the London Actor/Manager Sir George Alexander’s nephew…

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This man was my great uncle. He was the brother of my maternal grandfather, Newton Greenwood. He enlisted in Mildura in April 1916 because he was working there at the time. The family lived in Ballarat. He joined the 38th Battalion and was sent to England in 1916 and then to France in 1917. He was wounded several times and in May 1917 he was mentioned in despatches by General Monash for “gallant conduct on the occasion of recent raids on the enemy trenches”. He died in France on the 5th October 1918 and is buried in the Unicorn Cemetery at Vend’huile, which is a small village near the bigger town of Peronne. I visited his grave in 2008, when I went to France to attend the first Dawn Service at the Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux.

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Atkins relative.

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Lived at Black Dog Creek, Chiltern, Victoria.

Served in the 5^th and 57^th A.I.F. Battalions

Married Nancy Stimpson in Oxford, England during World War I.

Wounded in action by gunshot to right thigh.

Died in motor car accident near Chiltern 1936, returning from an RSL social evening.

Six children: Neville, Stella, Marjorie, Marcia, twins Ralph and Allan.

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we are sorry that we never ever got to know you…. but thank you for the scarifice that you made…. forever in our hearts

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Albert Robert Abbott was my grandfather though he passed away when my mother was only 9yo & the family had little chance to know (or know of) him.

My contact drskbrown@yahoo.com.au.

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Lindsay Gordon McDONALD was born on the 30th. September 1893 at Toongabbie, Victoria, Australia to parents Archibald and Sarah Jane (CADD) McDONALD.

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More information about Percy can be found here.

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Duncan Menzies was in travelling abroad in Scotland when the Great War began. He was an honorary 2nd Lieutenant in the Light Horse section of the Commonwealth citizen forces and volunteered on 6^thAugust 1914 for service but was told to return to Australia and join up there. Returning to Australia with his new wife, he fathered his first child, enlisted on 14th August 1916 with the AIF and was appointed officer commanding the 5^threinforcements of the 48^th Battalion.

On 28th August 1916, at 36 years of age Duncan embarked with his unit on HMAT A68 Anchises from Adelaide SA to Plymouth Britain and was promoted to Lieutenant there before proceeding to France in January 1917. He saw service in France under Brigadier General RL Leane and was wounded 3 times in 12 months. He was promoted to Captain in the field as officers above him were all injured or killed.

At Passchendaele on October 12^th 1917, Captain Menzies was with others who went over the top against the enemy. He received serious head wounds and shrapnel in his spine and was lying conscious but paralysed when he was taken in by stretcher bearers. He later told of his gratitude that when he was lying unable to move but able to hear, that whilst one stretcher bearer touched him with his foot and questioned if it was worth carrying him, the other replied “Let’s take him in, There’s a kick in the old dog yet.” Duncan’s war records show that 2 days after being injured, he was admitted to Rouen Hospital with a fractured skull, and transferred back to Britain 4 days later.

After spending the rest of the year in hospital Captain Duncan Menzies was invalided home to Australia in January 1918, on HMAT Corinthic disembarking at Melbourne on 3rd March 1918 and travelling to Adelaide to rejoin his family. He was discharged from Australian Forces for medical reasons in April 1918.

Duncan was advised at that time to live a quiet life with a prognosis of about 5 years. That wasn’t his nature and newspaper articles attest to the fact that he led a very full and active family and community life for 26 years finally dying in 1944.

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Son of Alfred Halliday and Matilda Amelia Mitchell.

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He was born at Mickley, Northumberland, England in 1877 and enlisted on 31st October 1914 at Liverpool. He embarked on the Seang Bee for Egypt then to Gallipoli where he was wounded. Following hospitalisation in Egypt he travelled back to Australia on the Hororata & was discharged medically unfit on 19th January 1916.

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Garnet Aubrey DENNING WW1, is my Grandfather who came out of the War injured and died in Concord Repatriation Hospital. His wife (my Grandmother) was Alma Florence DENNING (nee. Wilson).
Garnet and Alma had 3 Children: Lance Frederick Denning (now Deceased), Gwen Alma Denning - my Mother (87) and Lorna Elaine Denning (known as Elaine) 86.
The Denning Family is linked to John Macarthur Family of Camden.
My name is Larene Gwen O’Neill and I am a 7th Generation since the lst Denning arrived in Sydney on the ship called “The Three Bees”.
Larene
10th July 2012

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Gallipoli, Western Front.

After WW1, joined NT Mounted Police, served in Nt until 1950s.

Retired to South Australia.

any researchers, please contact: grangemoor1820@yahoo.co.uk

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Gallipoli & Western Front

RTA as CQMS; awarded MSM & MiD

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served Gallipoli with RAN.BT;

and Western Front with AIF.

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I am descended from Pte SHAW’s widow.

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