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Aquinas College War Service: 1917 YPRES

H.J. Appel

1896-1906 Annual: Christian Brothers' College

1911 Annual: Christian Brothers' College

CBC Annual Review 1912, p. 66

W.T. Bryan

CBC Annual 1917, p36

Australia's fighting sons of the Empire : Australia's fighting sons of the Empire: portraits and biographies of Australians in the Great War. Retrieved from https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/download/slwa_b1347816_303.pdf

F.R. Flindell

Australian War Memorial. [Image]. Retrieved https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=99790

Description

Studio portrait of 1620 Private (Pte) Frank Richard Flindell, 32nd Battalion. A farmhand from Leederville, Western Australia, he embarked with the 1st Reinforcements from Adelaide on 18 November 1915 aboard HMAT Geelong (A2) for Suez. The battalion relocated to the Western Front, France, during June 1916 and Pte Flindell was transferred to the 8th Light Trench Mortar Battery a month later. He was promoted to Lance Corporal on 12 November 1916 and to Temporary Corporal on 8 March 1917 and then attended the 5th Trench Mortar School during April 1916. He was promoted to Corporal (Cpl) on 1 May 1917. Cpl Flindell was killed in action on 3 May 1917. He has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. He was aged 23 years.

 

L.G. Glowrey

Australian War Memorial [Image]. Retrieved https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P02912.001.002

Informal photograph of Lieut. L.G. Glowrey taken in Belgium 1916.

CBC Annual, 1919

R. Mouritzen

1919 CBC Annual

 

CBC ANNUAL, 1914 p.53

H. Nagel

Australian War Memorial. [Image]. Retrieved https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P06567.001

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Harry Nagel, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, of North Perth, WA. Lt Nagel was a business manager before enlisting on 17 August 1914. He embarked from Fremantle on 31 October 1914, on HMAT Medic, as Quartermaster Sergeant with the 8th Battery of the 3rd Field Artillery brigade, regimental number 1861. After serving on Gallipoli, he was transferred to 112th Battery, 24th Howitzer Brigade.
He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 August 1916, and transferred to 111th Battery, 11th Field Artillery Brigade on 25 January 1917. On 22 July 1917 he was wounded in Belgium and evacuated to hospital in Le Havre; on 3 August 1917 he rejoined his unit in Belgium. On 17 October 1917 he was killed in action in Belgium: while returning along the duckboard walk from Zonnebeke to the battery position near Kit and Kat Ridge, he was hit by a shell. He was mentioned in despatches dated 7 November 1917.

W.G. Robertson

P.J. Rodriguez

The Soldiers of Barrack Street. [Image]. Retrieved http://www.thesoldiersofbarrackstreet.com/2nd-lieutenant-rodriguez-percy-john-23rd-battalion?rq=rodriguez

2nd Lieutenant RODRIGUEZ, Percy John, 23rd Battalion

 

 

H.W. Smith

Australia's fighting sons of the Empire : Australia's fighting sons of the Empire: portraits and biographies of Australians in the Great War. Retrieved from https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/download/slwa_b1347816_303.pdf

H.A. Spalholtz

Australian War Memorial. [Image]. Retrieved https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1117603

Studio group portrait of 2402 Private (Pte) Henry Alexander Spalholtz, of Yunndaga, WA (left seated), an unidentified soldier (centre standing), holding a piece of rope tied to a toy dog, and 2387 Pte John William Reilly, of Woolgar, WA. Pte Spalhotz enlisted on 6 May 1916 and embarked from Fremantle on 30 October 1916 with the 4th Reinforcements, 43rd Battalion. On his arrival in England he entered the NCOs School of Instruction at Jellalabad Barracks and then went on to Infantry Officers College at Kandahar, both at Tidworth, reaching the rank of sergeant. He was killed in action on 4 October 1917, aged 19 years. Pte Reilly enlisted on 2 May 1916 and also embarked from Fremantle on 30 October 1916 with the 4th Reinforcements, 43rd Battalion. He later served as a lance corporal and returned to Australia on 1 June 1919.