BONE, PERCY JOHN, Corpl., No. 231, A Coy., No. 4 Platoon, 38th Battn., 10th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of Robert Thomas Bone, of 102, Farrant Avenue, Noel Park, Wood Green, N.; b. Marylebone, W. 31 Jan. 1884; educ. Noel Park School, Wood Green, N.; went to Australia; volunteered for Imperial Service, and joined the Australian Infantry in 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Vimy Ridge 29 May, 1917; unm.

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Thompson A J O Lt Col 4th Australian Infantry

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL A. J. O. THOMPSON, V.D.

4TH BATTALION AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

ASTLEY JOHN ONSLOW THOMPSON Was the eldest son of Astley John Thompson, Glyn Abbey, Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.

He entered the School in 1879, and left in 1882.

He then went to Australia, where he became Managing Director of the Camden Park Estate and Director of the Commercial Bank of Sydney and other companies.

At the outbreak of War he was on the Unattached List of Officers, and was one of the first men in Australia to volunteer. He had previously risen to the rank of Major in the New South Wales Mounted Rifles.

He was mentioned in Despatches by the General Commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

He was killed while leading his Battalion in an attack upon the Turkish trenches, at the Dardanelles, on April 26th, 1915. Age 50.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

BETHUNE, NORMAN MCLEOD, Trooper, No. 341, 8th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd and only surv. s. of the late Joseph Robert Douglas Bethune, by his wife, Sibella Maria, dau. of Alexander Paterson; and nephew to the late Magnus Paterson, of Sale, and brother to Corpl. A. D. Bethune (q.v.); b. Cluny Ouse, Tasmania, 1 April, 1886; educ. Toorak Grammar School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; was for a time employed in a bank, but subsequently took up Farming; volunteered for Imperial Service, and joined the 8th Light Horse 12 Sept. 1914, after the outbreak; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli until Aug. 1915, when he was invalided to England, and admitted to Lewisham Military Hospital 1 Sept., suffering from enteric; returned to duty 5 May, 1916, when he served with the Anzac Mounted Division in Egypt and Palestine, and died at Gaza 19 April, 1917, from wounds received in action there. Buried at Aseifiyeh. His Colonel wrote: “It is to his kind the regiment is indebted for the name it bears of courage and devotion to duty.” Unm.

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Bethune A D Cpl 234 8th Light Horse Australian Imperial Force

BETHUNE, ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, Corpl., No. 234, 8th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of the late Joseph Robert Douglas Bethune, of Westbury, and Cluny Ouse, Tasmania, by his wife, Sibella Maria, dau. of Alexander Paterson, of Vic-toria and nephew of the late Magnus Paterson, of Sale, and brother to Trooper N. McL. Bethune (q.v.); b. Cluny-on-Derwent, Tasmania, 16 Aug. 1879; educ. Hutchins School, Hobart, and Gippsland College, Sale (Victoria); was an Assayer by profession, later engaged in Irrigation Farming served in the South African War, 1900-2, with Roberts’s Horse and the Imperial Bushmen (Medal), also with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, 1915, and was killed in action there in the famous charge of the Light Horse at Walker’s Ridge 7 Aug. 1915. A comrade wrote: “Douglas Bethune was a grand man in a grand troop, not one of whom returned from the charge,” and another: Each man knew it was certain death, and anyone could have sprung back into the trench, but to their everlasting credit not one man drew back.” He formed one of the Australian Guard of Honour at the Coronation of King Edward VII., and had the Coronation Medal; unm.

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Batchelor A Cpl 2432 24th Australian Imperial Force

BATCHELOR, ALBERT, Corpl., No. 2432, 24th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of Henry John Batchelor, of Rising Sun, Sandle Road, Edmonton, London, N., by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Maria Brown; b. Edmonton aforesaid, 4 June, 1890; edue. St. James’s School, Upper Edmonton,t N.; went to Australia in April, 1910, and settled at Melbourne as an Iron Moulder; joined the Australian Force in Sept. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from March, and died at No. 24 General Hospital, Camiers, 12 Aug. 1916, from wounds received in action at Mouquet Farm. Buried at Camiers; unm.

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BANNON, JOHN STANLEY, Gunner, No. 27163, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of James Percy Bannon, of Anna Cottage, Upper Clanbrassil Street, Dublin, Legal Accountant, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Nicholas Liston; b. Dublin, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; went to Australia in June, 1914, being employed at Muswellbrook, on a farm; enlisted 13 March, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Jan. 1917; was gassed at Ypres 31 Oct. of the same year, and invalided to England; on recovery in May, 1918, returned to his unit in France, and was killed in action at Villers Bretonneux 7 Aug. following. Buried in the Glisy Cemetery, near Amiens; unm.

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Walker A N L/Cpl 924 13th Australian Imperial Force

WALKER,’ARCHIE NORMAN, L.-Corpl., No. 924, 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of Robert Percival Hoar, of 22, Quanza Street, Beach, East London, South Africa, by his wife, Cornelia Isabella (Nellie) Hoar, dau. of Peter Fostin; b. Cathcart, South Africa, 4 April, 1893; educ. East London; went to Australia in 1914; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept. 1914; left with the second reinforcements, and died 23 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles; unm. He was buried at sea from H.M. Hospital ship Nevasa in lat. 36.49N. long. 1º 2E.

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Walburn W A Pte 1637 4th Australian Imperial Force

WALBURN, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Private, No. 1637, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Walburn, of 3, Portland Terrace, Redcar, co. Yorks, retired Hotel Proprietor, by his wife, Alice Helen, dau. of the late John Davison, of Redcar; b. Crakehall, near Bedale, co. York, 7 Aug. 1881 ; educ. Kirkleatham Private School; went to Australia in Oct. 1914, following a severe illness, and on his arrival found his health so much improved that he was able to join the Commonwealth E.F. at Sydney, 15 Dec. 1914; left Sydney for Egypt the following Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and in every engagement with his regt. till 6 Aug. when he was seriously wounded in the great charge at Lone Pine Ridge ; and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, three days after admission, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery there. He m. at Redcar Parish Church, 23 Sept. 1903, Annie, dau. of the late William McNaughton, and had a son, William Cecil, b. 29 Jan. 1909.

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VILLIS, LEYSHON, Trooper, No. 748, 18th Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, of George Villis, by his wife, Mary Ann (Hayes Cottages, S. Sully, near Cardiff), dau. of Leyshon Watkin; b. Mountain Ash, co. Glamorgan, 17 April, 1893; educ. Sully; went to Australia, 1 Dec. 1911; volunteered and enlisted following the outbreak of war, 15 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

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Verge A Captain Australian Army Medical Corps Attd 6th Australian Light Horse

VERGE, ARTHUR, Capt., A.A.M.C., attd. 6th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Austral Verge, of Kempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales, Grazier, by his wife, Matilda Jane, dau. of Henry Flavelle, of Hamilton Terrace, London; b. Kempsey, 12 Feb. 1880; educ. The King’s School, Parramatta, where he was Burton Exhibitioner in 1898, and St. Paul’s College within Sydney University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.M., in 1905; was for two years (1905-6) resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital; then proceeded to England, where he attended the leading London hospital skin departments, and took courses in Bacteriology and Vaccine Therapy. After a post graduate course at Edinburgh University he qualified F.R.C.S. there in 1908, and then visited Paris, Vienna, Prague and Berlin, and attended the skin clinics and took courses in the treatment of skin diseases under Sabarand, Brocq, Thebierge, Albaran (Paris), Finger, Rail, Oppenheim,Cape Sammer (Vienna), Blaschko, Josephs and Wasserman (Berlin). Returning to Edinburgh, he was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Skin Department for three months, and later non-resident house physician for one year (1909-10), at the Royal Infirmary, and while holding these positions had charge of the X-Ray department, and the radium treatment under Dr. Cranston Low. He took a six months’ course in Vaccine Therapy and Bacteriology of the Skin at the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1910 published in the “British Medical Journal” (31 Dec.) an article on “The Treatment and Diagnosis of Lupu Vulgaris by Tuberculin Ointment.” He then returned to Australia and practised as a skin specialist in Sydney, and in 1911 obtained the position of Hon. Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Skin at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital there.  On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and was given a commission as Capt. A.A.M.C., 2 Oct. 1914 ; left Sydney as medical officer to the 6th Light Horse with the second reinforcements, and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, 8 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service with his regt. at Anzac Cove; unm.

He represented both King’s School and St. Paul’s College in cricket, football, tennis and rowing. He played with the University Union Football Team, and was full-back for three seasons. He played full-back for New South Wales against Queensland in 1902 and 1904, and while in the old country played rugger with Blackheath and other Rugby clubs. Dr. Verge was also a capital all-round cricketer, and at one time was the most successful bowler at the University. He played in two matches against Melbourne University, scoring 10 and 2, and taking two for 22 and six for 20 in 1903; and scoring 4 and 5, and taking four for 70 and three for 69 in 1904. His yr. brother, Dr. C. A. Verge, is now with No. 32 General Hospital, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force.

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