ANZACs and other WWI Personnel
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Over 1250 local men and women served in World War One (WWI)[1]. The locals who served included:
- 17 local women who served as Nurses or Sisters[1] (see ANZAC Girls)
- 115 local ‘ANZACs’ – soldiers, who served in or were associated with the Gallipoli campaign[1].
Of the local men who served, 17 died as a result of the Gallipoli campaign and 83 as a result of later WWI campaigns. Quite a few men, who served in Gallipoli and were still fit for service, went on to serve in later campaigns. Some of those, like F J Scott, survived Galipolli but then died in a later campaign (this is why his name is sometimes included in Galipolli Honour lists).
The compiled lists of those who served and those who died are subject to variation depending on the boundaries used to define the local district, the criteria used to determine who is local (born locally, resided locally, enlisted locally or had local next of kin) and the information available at the time the list was compiled. As records have become more available, especially digitally, additional names have been added. For a comprehensive list with names, details and often photographs of all the local personnel who served see the “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website, created by researcher Beth Page.
The following sections will list the names of locals who died whilst serving in the Gallipoli campaign and other WWI campaigns, as commemorated on the pavers installed in the Remembrance Garden in Pioneer Park in 2015 – a century after the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli. The names are listed as written on the commemorative paver, followed by full name and other notes, such as if their name also appears on the Roll of Honour 1914-1918 or the Gawler South WWI Memorial. Additional personnel who died whilst serving are listed on the “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website, which has been more recently updated.
“Gawler Anzac Veterans Who Gave All” (17 commemorative pavers)
ALLEN S T 7 Dec 1915 [ALLEN Sidney Torrington]
BAKER W A 28 Nov 1915 [BAKER William Albert]
BELL E C 19 May 1915 [BELL Eric Chalcroft – also Honour Roll]
BOWDEN J S 25 Apr 1915 [BOWDEN John Stirling – also Honour Roll]
BRUNS E O A 2 May 1915 [BRUNS Ernest Otto Alfred] E O A Bruns was a teacher at Gawler Public School for two years (c1912-1914) prior to resigning to enter the defence service.[2] He was “gazetted to a lieutenancy in the 79th Infantry” and volunteered to serve abroad when the war began.[2] Former student ‘Trix’ McConnell stated in her memoirs “The hero of our school days was Mr Bruin, [sic] who was killed in the first world war.”[3]
COCHCRANE A D 9 Dec 1915 [COCHCRANE Andrew Downie - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
FORREST C F 4 Aug 1915 [FORREST Christopher Frank]
GILBERT J 28 May 1915 [GILBERT Joseph - born Gawler, served with British Forces]
HOGBEN R H 2 May 1915 [HOGBEN Richard Hubert]
JAMES F 4 May 1915 [JAMES Frank – also Honour Roll]
MCLACHLAN R S 9 Aug 1915 [MCLACHLAN Roy Stevens]
OLDHAM E C Maj 25 Apr 1915 [OLDHAM Edward Castle]
REID F C 25 Apr 1915 [REID Frederick Charles]
SHEEDY J J 27 Apr 1915 [SHEEDY James John – also Honour Roll]
SHORT A E 8 Aug 1915 [sic][SHORT Arthur Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of James Short, 2 brothers also died WWI, see list below]
SMITH C C 25 Apr 1915 [SMITH Cyril Charles]
TURNBULL J S 6 Jul 1915 [TURNBULL John Sanderson – also Honour Roll]
A compilation including maps, photographs of the Gallipoli site, cemeteries and memorials for these local soldiers who died whilst serving in Gallipoli is available as a Powerpoint slideshow, compiled in August 2014 by Gawler RSL past-President E.W. Clarke and Webmaster Beth Page. Their efforts in compiling and sharing this resource are greatly appreciated. Please click here and follow the prompts to download it (the file is 78MB and will take a short time to download). The memorial for F C Reid is not specifically featured but his name is visible on the same 10th Battalion Lone Pine memorial panel as J J Sheedy.
“World War One Gawler Vets Who Gave All” (83 commemorative pavers)
ADAMS B [ADAMS Breally – also Honour Roll]
ADDIS C [ADDIS Clement Riggs - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
ANGRAVE F [ANGRAVE Francis Gordon - also Gawler South Memorial]
BAKER H H [BAKER Henry Howard – also Honour Roll, brother of Baker Hilda Maud]
BERRYMAN S C [sic][BERRIMAN Clement Clifford ‘Cliff’ – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C L (next) who also died whilst serving WWI and Berriman (Cr) James Owen]
BERRYMAN C L [sic][BERRIMAN Claude Leslie – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C C (previous) who also died whilst serving WWI and Berriman (Cr) James Owen]
BOOMER P C F [BOOMER Percy Charles Fernlie – also Honour Roll]
BOSLEY O B D [BOSLEY Oswald Bainem - also Honour Roll]
BUSBRIDGE R J [BUSBRIDGE Reginald James - also Honour Roll]
BUTTFIELD B V [BUTTFIELD Blinman Vincent - also Honour Roll, he was a chemist’s assistant for Mr J Letcher, chemist]
CASKEY J P [CASKEY John Percival – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
CHENOWETH A H [CHENOWETH Arthur Henry - also Honour Roll]
CHILDS A [CHILDS Alfred Leonard - also Honour Roll]
CHURCHMAN N [CHURCHMAN Norman Horace – also Honour Roll – contemporary research indicates he actually survived WWI, discharged 5 Jul 1919 & survived until 1954]
COLLINS A H [Roll of Honour lists ‘A H Collins’ with a star [died] and ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) with no star, Gawler South WWI Memorial lists ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) who served unto death. Gawler South memorial would be ‘COLLIN Allen Harold’, whose mother resided in Gawler South and also had two other sons who served in WWI, survived and are also listed on Gawler South Memorial. There was also, ‘COLLINS Alfred Henry’, who served and died in WWI, he was born in England and his next of kin were in England.]
COOMBE H H [COOMBE Henry Heywood – also Honour Roll, son of Coombe Ephraim Henry]
CRACKOW W F [likely same as ‘W F Drackow’ on Honour Roll, neither name is in WWI Nominal Rolls or “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” Website, possible they may refer to ‘DRECKOW Alfred Alwin’, born ‘Drackow’, (Alfred could have been abbreviated to ‘Fred’), whose mother and siblings were residing in Moore Street, Gawler in 1921, naming her residence ‘Orontes’ after the ship her son sailed on]
DANIEL W E [DANIEL Walter Edmund- also Honour Roll as [sic] ‘W E Daniels’ with ‘s’]
DAVIDSON S J [DAVIDSON Samuel John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
DRAPER G G [DRAPER Henry George Germain – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
FARRANT W G [sic][FARRANT Harold George – also Honour Roll]
FITZGERALD L [FITZGERALD Leonard – also Honour Roll but no star]
FITZPATRICK J D [FITZPATRICK John David – also Honour Roll]
FRANKLIN R V [FRANKLIN Rodney Vernon – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, he was one of Gawler’s first six recruits and was posthumously awarded French Croix de Guerre medal – more details in Gawler Military Involvement]
FREEMAN D J [FREEMAN Douglas James – also Honour Roll, attended School of Mines]
FORGIE J G [FORGIE James Graham – also Honour Roll, son of James Forgie of King Street]
GOLDSWORTHY R J [GOLDSWORTHY Roy James – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
GUY P G [GUY Philip Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of Philip Guy]
HAGGERTY M J [HAGGERTY Michael Joseph – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
HALL R [HALL Reginald – also Honour Roll]
HARRIS N [HARRIS Edward Noel - also Honour Roll]
HAYDOCK D P [HAYDOCK Daniel Paul - also Honour Roll]
HETZEL H W [HETZEL Herbert Walter – also Honour Roll, son of Frederich Hetzel of 6 Twentyfirst Street]
HIND R J [HIND Ronald James – also Honour Roll]
HOOLE H [HOOLE Harold – also Honour Roll but no star & Gawler South Memorial]
HOWE H W C HOWE [HOWE Harold Walter Cleveland – also Honour Roll]
JACOBS P K [JACOBS Percy Kingsley – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
KENNEWELL C J [KENNEWELL Charles John – also Honour Roll, these two Kennewell are not brothers]
KENNEWELL S A [KENNEWELL Sydney Albert - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, these two Kennewell are not brothers]
KERR J A [KERR John Allen – also Honour Roll]
LAUREN H W W [LAUREN Karl Walter Wilhelm – also Honour Roll]
LAYCOCK F O [LAYCOCK Frederick Osmond – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, son of Richard William Laycock of Queen Street, 2 brothers also served WWI]
MAHONEY H J [MAHONEY Henry John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
MARTIN R V [MARTIN Rueben Vivian – also Honour Roll, brother of next]
MARTIN W J P [MARTIN William James Peter – also Honour Roll, brother of previous]
MASTERS R [MASTERS Thomas Charles Roy – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
MAY S G [MAY Stanley Garnet – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, son of Alfred May, brother died in Boer War]
MCLAREN C R [McLAREN Clarence Roy – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial, brother of next – four of five sons in family served WWI, 2 died]
MCLAREN D F [McLAREN David Francis – also Gawler South Memorial. Honour Roll has ‘D F McLaren’ without a star to indicate he died and ‘F McLaren’ with a star in a different column. As he was known as ‘Frank’, and the only of the McLaren’s who served with initial ‘F’, it is likely both refer to him. He enlisted and was discharged as medically unfit, then travelled to England and was serving as a munitions worker during which time he died pneumonia.]
MOLD C E [MOLD Charles Edwin – also Honour Roll, grandson of James Mold]
OLDHAM D C [OLDHAM Dudley Castle]
ORMSBY M S [ORMSBY Matthew Stephen – also Honour Roll]
PARHAM E W [PARHAM Edgar William]
PATERSON J K [PATERSON James Knox – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
POLLE W [POLLE William Harold Percival, - also Honour Roll, brother of next]
POLLE J [POLLE Joseph Louis Byron- also Honour Roll, brother of previous]
QUINN M J [QUINN Michael James – also Honour Roll but no star & Gawler South Memorial]
RAU E J [RAU Ernest John – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
RICE R A [RICE Reginald Arnold – also Honour Roll, son of William Rice]
RIGGS F [RIGGS Frank Leslie - also Honour Roll]
RILEY B J [RILEY Bernard – also Honour Roll]
ROBERTSON J G [sic][ROBINSON John George – ‘J G Robinson’ – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
RUNDLE L L[RUNDLE Leonard Lancelot – also Honour Roll]
RYAN F A C [RYAN Frank Allen Clifford – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
SANDERCOCK H [SANDERCOCK Herbert – also Honour Roll]
SCOTT F J (8 Oct 1917)[SCOTT Frank John – also Honour Roll but no star, brother of next. F J Scott was one of Gawler’s first six recruits, he served in Gallipoli then went on serve in further campaigns, he was killed in action serving in Belgium. His commemorative paver is in the style of the ANZAC commemorative pavers (colour & inclusion of date) as it may have initially been intended to include him in the list of ANZACs who died in the Gallipoli campaign.]
SCOTT C J [SCOTT Cleve James – also Honour Roll, brother of previous]
SHEARD A E [SHEARD Alfred Edwin – also Honour Roll, son of Alfred Sheard]
SHERIFF S H [SHERIFF Henry Septimus – also Honour Roll, son of George Sheriff]
SHORT A G [sic][SHORT Edward Charles – Honour Roll as ‘E C Short’, son of James Short, brother Arthur Gawler Short killed in Gallipoli (previous list) and brother H Short (next) also killed WWI]
SHORT H [SHORT Henry – also Honour Roll as ‘Harry Short’, son of James Short, 3 brothers killed WWI see previous]
SMITH G [SMITH George – also Honour Roll]
TAMBLYN C D [TAMBLYN Charles David – also Honour Roll but no star]
TIERNEY J L [TIERNEY Joseph – also Honour Roll]
TYLER J C [TYLER John Charles - also Honour Roll but no star]
VEALE G T [sic][VEALL John Gretland – also Honour Roll as ‘G T Veall’, brother of next]
VEALE S V [sic][VEALL Samuel Vivian - also Honour Roll as ‘S V Veall’, brother of previous]
WADE R [WADE Ronald Victor – also Honour Roll]
WALKER C [WALKER Eric Cecil – also Honour Roll]
WATERS S M [WATERS Maynard Septimus – also Honour Roll, son of Thomas Alexander Waters]
WIESE R W [WIESE Reinhold Gustav Wilhelm - also Gawler South Memorial]
WHELAN J [WHELAN James 1109 – also Honour Roll as ‘Jas Whelan’]
WOODS H [WOODS Harry Joshua 1849 – also Honour Roll as ‘H J Woods’]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gawler RSL Sub Branch (2015) “ANZAC Centenary Record for the Gawler Town and District – 259 Days that created the ANZAC Legend” (Evanston Gardens Library 994.04 RSL)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 LIEUTENANT BRUNS (Daily Herald 17 May 1915) https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134409254
- ↑ Beatrice E McConnell (2001) "Gawler Memories 1901 to 2001", pg 8.
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