Anderson S Pte 997 2nd Australain Infantry

ANDERSON, SAMUEL, Private, No. 997, 2nd Battn., Australian 1st Infantry Brigade, only s. of Charles Anderson, of Eastwick, Ollaberry, North Mavine, Shetland, R.N.R., by his wife, Christina, dau. of George Clark Sharp, of Ollaberry; b. Ollaberry, Shetland, 14 Nov. 1890; educ. Public School there; was a few months in the Merchant Service, and went to Australia in 1910, and was working on a farm until the out-break of war. He enlisted, went with the 1st Australian Contingent to Cairo, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 15 April, 1915; unm.

Source : Shetland Roll Of Honour

Anderson L Sig 5295 17th Australian Infantry

Source : Shetland Roll Of Honour

Anderson J Pte Australian Infantry

Source : Shetland Roll Of Honour

Anderson A R Cpl 223 1st Australian Infantry

Source : Shetland Roll Of Honour

ADAMS, FREDERIC JAMES, Private, No. 868, 8th Infantry Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Rawson Adams, of Mildura, Victoria, Australia, Fruit Grower, by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of the late John Colbeck, of Leeds, co. York, Schoolmaster; b. Kimberworth, near Rotherham, co. York, 12 Sept. 1889; educ. St. Margaret’s Grammar School, Mildura, Victoria, Australia; was a Fruit Grower; volunteered for Imperial Service, and joined the Australian Infantry on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; proceeded to Gallipoli in April, 1915, and was killed in action during the landing there on the 25th. Buried at Gaba Tepe. A comrade wrote: “I am able to tell you that death was instantaneous, and so he did not suffer any agonies as some of the other poor fellows did. We were all sorry to know he was one of the first to go, as he was such a fine fellow in every sense of the word, and a gentleman. I was proud to call him friend. Yes, your sons did their best right through the piece, whether at drill, sports, or anything else they undertook, and were God-fearing and upright.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 2

CAMPBELL, MURDOCH CAMERON PRENTICE, Corpl., No. 2878, 59th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of James Campbell, of Kirkfieldbank, co. Lanark, by his wife, Jane Livingstone Wallace; b. Kirkfieldbank, co. Lanark, 26 April, 1892: educ. there; went to Australia in Aug. 1913, and settled at Campsie, Sydney, as a Government Employee: enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force 19 Sept. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following March, and was killed in action at Messines Ridge 29 Nov. 1917. Buried in Rose Trench, close to Kilo Farm, near Kemmel Hill. He had been recommended for the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. at Campsie, Sydney, 5 Dec. 1914, Louisa (Ella Cottage, Evelyne Street, Campsie, Sydney, New South Wales), yst. dau. of the late Provost William Hodge, of Rattray, Blairgowrie, co. Perth; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5