2008 Soldiers

The following soldiers will be commemorated by the Connecting Spirits 2008 group

 
Archibald Amber Private 3187 1st Australian Pioneers 1st AIF Killed in Action 23rd October 1917
 
Edward Lawrence Angove Lieutenant 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 23rd August 1918
 
Michael Laurence Barry Private SX14541 8th Div Ammmunition Sub Park 2nd AIF Died of Disease 12th October 1943
 
Frank Howard Bartley Private 4500 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 29th September 1918.
 
William Alfred Bennett Private 2287 30th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 20th July 1916
 
Edward Blackman Private 4750 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 5th April 1918
 
Richard Blain Private 2766 29th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 27th September 1917
 
Ernest Briggs Private 823 37th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 4th October 1917
 
Arthur Edmond Brooks Private 3034 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 20th July 1916
 
Alexander Lawrence Carraill Private 1948 14th Brigade AFA 1st AIF Died of Wounds 8th August 1918
 
Leslie McNeill Carraill Private 3780 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 3rd September 1918
 
Stanley James Carraill Private 2374 19th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 14th November 1916
 
Sydney Roy Cooper Lance Corporal 5679 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 11th April 1917
 
Benjamin Clifford Crouch Private 2791 43rd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 31st July 1917
 
Ivan Frank Day Private SX11342 AASC 8 Div Amm SUB PARK 2nd AIF Died of Disease 27th August 1943
 
Albert Lionel Duffield Private 6240 27th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 4th October 1917
 
Oswald Rudolf Duldig Private 6242 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 20th September 1917
 
Geoffrey Gordon Dunhill MM Gunner 8377 6th Brigade AFA 1st AIF Died of Wounds 26th October 1917
 
Walter Leonard East Private 474 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 15th May 1915
 
William Henry East Private 4761 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 4th September 1916
 
  
John George Eckert Lance Corporal 5357 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 1st October 1917
 
Herbert Owen Farrelly Private 3385 52nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 21st October 1917
 
Matthew Edward Farrelly Sergeant 1948 MID 6th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 20th September 1917
 
Edward James Feely Lance Corporal 3695 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 12th October 1917
 
David Alexander Forrest Private 1677 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 16th August 1916
 
George Allen Forrest Sergeant 5696 43rd Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 20th April 1918
 
Charles Foster Private 2867 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 27th March 1918
  
Gustav Alfred Gerhardy Private 3647 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 14th October 1917
 
Peter Paul Michael Gillen Private SX11641 AASC 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company Died of Disease 8th January 1945 as a Prisoner of War at Sandakan
 
Bruce Lyle Godfree Private 2147 27th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 28th June 1916
 
William Charles Goldfinch Private 3110 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 16th August 1916
 
Septimus Clarance Gollan Private 3756 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 1st October 1917
 
James Henry Gurr Private 5106 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 13th December 1916 
                    
Arthur James Hamlyn Private 6492 MM 4th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 5th May 1917
 
Robert Andrew Heath Lance Corporal 968 43rd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 26th June 1917
 
Robert James Mansfield Hooper  Lieutenant 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 27th April 1915
 
Victor Frederick Hunt Private 788 11th Battallion 1st AIF Killed in Action 2nd May 1915
 
Gordon Oliver Jarvis Signalman NX44376 8th Division Signals 2nd AIF Died of Wounds 15th February 1942
 
Robert Oliver Knight Lance Corporal 3802 57th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 25th February 1918
 
  
George Thomas Lawson Private 20968 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery 1st AIF Killed in Action 4th July 1918
 
William Edward Lear Trooper 928 9th Light Horse Regiment Killed in Action 29th August 1915
  
William Leggett Corporal of Horse 2880 1st Life Guards Killed in Action 14th October 1914. Believed to be the first Australian Killed in Action in the Great War. 
 
 
Hans Mack Private 4324 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 24th June 1918
 
Percival Edmund May Private 2130 16th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 7th August 1915
 
Percival Henry May Private 2398 27th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 10th August 1916
 
Henry Louis McCrohon Sapper 6022 1st Company Australian Tunnelling Corps 1st AIF Died of Sickness 8th February 1919
 
David Charles McDonald Private 675 8th Coy Australian Machine Gun Corps 1st AIF Died of Wounds 2nd November 1916
 
William Stewart McKay Lieutenant 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 24th April 1918
 
John Adolph McKechnie Sergeant 2191 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 23rd July 1916
 
Andrew Joseph McLaughlin Private 2202 27th Battalion 1st AIF  Killed in Action 20th September 1917
 
James Michael Sergeant 2072 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Died of Disease 13th December 1916
 
George Henry Morris Private 4326 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 6th February 1918
 
James Martin Clement Neagle Private 2233 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 18th October 1917
 
John James Nelson Lance Corporal 1694 16th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 10th August 1916
 
William Barnard Nelson Company Sergeant Major 231249 23rd ( Tyneside Scottish ) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers BEF Killed in Action 1st July 1916
 
Ernest Henry Noy Private 3740 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 11th April, 1917
 
Leslie Cyril Noy Private 588 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 11th April, 1917
 
Elder Harrah Oborn Driver 31596 5th Brigade Australian Field Artillery 1st AIF Killed in Action 28th October 1917
 
Clarance Swann Padman Private 6891 8th Coy Australian Machine Gun Corps 1st AIF Killed in Action 29th November 1916
 
 
Eric George Padman Lance Corporal 2857 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 27th September 1917
 
Thomas George William Palmer Private 677 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 27th April 1915

Roy Victor Parasiers Gunner 2005 Australian Field Artillery Killed in Action 4th September 1917

Ambrose Stanley Pearce Private 679 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 25th - 29th April 1915
 
Raymond Holstein Pflaum Private 161 32nd Battalion 1st AIF  Killed in Action 20th July 1916
 
Theodore Milton Pflaum 2nd Lieutenant 25th Coy Australian Machine Gun Corps 1st AIF Died of Wounds 24th September 1917
 
Hurtle Charles Prettejohn Private 3584 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 6th January 1918
 
Percy Lawrie Pym Private 3074 10th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 2nd March 1917
 
Ernest John Rau Corporal 2012 2nd Pioneer Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 5th August 1916
 
Arthur Rawlings Bombardier 2754 2nd Brigade Australian Field Artillery 1st AIF Died of Wounds 3rd May 1917
 
William Reginald Rawlings MM Private 3603 29th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 9th August 1918
 
Carew Reynell Lieutenant Colonel 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment 1st AIF Killed in Action 27th August 1915
 
Thomas Edward Lindsay Rhue Lance Corporal 6575 10th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 10th August 1918
 
John William Rigby Private 1724 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 11th April 1917
 
Herbert Rigler Corporal 1689 25th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 29th July 1916
 
Cyril Spurgeon Rigney Private 2042 43rd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 3rd July 1917
 
Rufus Gordon Rigney Private 3872 48th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 16th October 1917
  
Walter Farmes Scobie Captain 4th Pioneers Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 7th August 1916
 
 
Archibald Allen Scott Private 2797 60th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 19th July 1916 
 
Edward Andrew Scott Private 2405 48th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 30th March 1918
 
Noel James McDonald Sears Private 572 43rd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 31st July 1917
  
Ira Alfred Smart Private 980 27th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 2nd November 1915
 
Thomas Anthony Spurr Driver 944 13th Brigade Australian Field Artillery 1st AIF Killed in Action 19th October 1917
 
Joseph Raymond Stead Private 187 32nd Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 20th July 1916
  
Maurice Terlier Private 2752 52nd Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 17th October 1917
 
Harry Thorpe MM Corporal 5459 7th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 9th August 1918
 
William James Tidy Private 14949 6th Australian Field Ambulance 1st AIF Killed in Action 3rd October 1918
 
Charles Edgar Morris Turner Private 1836 16th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 26th August 1916
 
Harold Morris Turner Private 4895 13th Company Australian Machine Gun Corps 1st AIF Killed in Action 2nd April 1917
 
Robert James Turner Private 4929 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 8th February 1917
 
Francis Alban Varcoe Private 6170 27th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 15th May 1917
 
Robert Verrall Private 1838 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in ACtion 1st October 1916
 
Arthur Thomas Walker Private 2466 50th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 16th August 1916
 
Thomas James Walker Driver 6400 25th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 11th August 1918
 
Clifford Arnold Wall Private 6340 / A 27th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 2nd September 1918
 
George Harold Weidenhofer Lance Sergeant 1920A 35th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 6th May 1918
 
Melville Taylor Wilks Lance Corporal 5864 48th Battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 3rd May 1918
 
Richard Leonard Williams Private 4782 27th battalion 1st AIF Killed in Action 5th November 1916
 
Osborne Wilson Private 3929 50th battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 8th September 1916
 
William Richard Wood Private 2446 10th Battalion 1st AIF Died of Wounds 17th April 1918
 

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