The following 75 Soldiers were living in the Unley Council area when they enlisted
and have been omitted from the Honour Roll
and have been omitted from the Honour Roll
For details of how to have a name added to the Honour Roll Board see the procedure below
go to Unley City Council Website
5.1. Applications
Applications to add a new name to the World War I Honour Roll must be received in writing and directed to the Unley Museum Curator.
Applications must include documentary evidence that the person in question fulfils the criteria below.
5.2. Criteria
The person proposed for inclusion on the Honour Roll must have served in World War I and been an Unley resident when they enlisted.
5.3. Evaluation
The Museum Curator will substantiate the information provided in the application by referring to the records of the Australian War Memorial and records held by the City of Unley. If the request meets the criteria as outlined in 5.2, it will be approved by the Curator.
5.4. Other matters
The approved name is to be added, where possible, in alphabetical order to a vacant space on the wooden flanges perpendicular to the main face of the roll.
The name is to be painted in gold leaf in a style identical to the original names.
As a courtesy, the Unley Branch of the Returned Services League will be advised regarding the request.
go to Unley City Council Website
5.1. Applications
Applications to add a new name to the World War I Honour Roll must be received in writing and directed to the Unley Museum Curator.
Applications must include documentary evidence that the person in question fulfils the criteria below.
5.2. Criteria
The person proposed for inclusion on the Honour Roll must have served in World War I and been an Unley resident when they enlisted.
5.3. Evaluation
The Museum Curator will substantiate the information provided in the application by referring to the records of the Australian War Memorial and records held by the City of Unley. If the request meets the criteria as outlined in 5.2, it will be approved by the Curator.
5.4. Other matters
The approved name is to be added, where possible, in alphabetical order to a vacant space on the wooden flanges perpendicular to the main face of the roll.
The name is to be painted in gold leaf in a style identical to the original names.
As a courtesy, the Unley Branch of the Returned Services League will be advised regarding the request.
ABBLEY, William 3039
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“HIS HOUR"
Digger Dies When Armistice Bells Ring
WAR SERVICE CAUSES END
ADELAIDE, Saturday
As the eleventh hour of Armistice Day chimed yesterday and Adelaide began its two minutes silence to commemorate the soldier dead, Pte. William Abbley, formerly of the 52nd Battalion, A.I.F died at Keswick Military Hospital.
"The hospital bell was just ringing for silence when he died," Mrs. Abbley said.
"'It seemed to me a fitting time for him to go, for he had suffered much. I had been at the hospital for five hours. We had thought the end was near for days. He died from an illness that followed his service in the war."
Mr. Abbley, who lived in Jervis street, St. Leonards, had been in hospital for several months. He came from England, to South Australia in 1912, and sailed with infantry reinforcements for the front in September, 1915.
CHlLDHOOD SWEETHEARTS
In the following year he was wounded in the left shoulder. Invalided in England, he had a severe attack of pleurisy, which brought on the disease responsible for his death.
"We were childhood sweethearts in West Hartlepool," said Mrs. Abbley. "I met him first when he came to my thirteenth birthday party.
"With my father and mother I came to Australia in 1912, and he came with us. We were married 10 months before he left for the front."
Every day for the past seven weeks Mrs Abbley had visited Keswick Hospital to be by her husband's side. She said she had never known kindness such as had been shown by the doctors and nurses at the hospital.”
1932 'HIS HOUR.', Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954), 14 November, p. 2,
Digger Dies When Armistice Bells Ring
WAR SERVICE CAUSES END
ADELAIDE, Saturday
As the eleventh hour of Armistice Day chimed yesterday and Adelaide began its two minutes silence to commemorate the soldier dead, Pte. William Abbley, formerly of the 52nd Battalion, A.I.F died at Keswick Military Hospital.
"The hospital bell was just ringing for silence when he died," Mrs. Abbley said.
"'It seemed to me a fitting time for him to go, for he had suffered much. I had been at the hospital for five hours. We had thought the end was near for days. He died from an illness that followed his service in the war."
Mr. Abbley, who lived in Jervis street, St. Leonards, had been in hospital for several months. He came from England, to South Australia in 1912, and sailed with infantry reinforcements for the front in September, 1915.
CHlLDHOOD SWEETHEARTS
In the following year he was wounded in the left shoulder. Invalided in England, he had a severe attack of pleurisy, which brought on the disease responsible for his death.
"We were childhood sweethearts in West Hartlepool," said Mrs. Abbley. "I met him first when he came to my thirteenth birthday party.
"With my father and mother I came to Australia in 1912, and he came with us. We were married 10 months before he left for the front."
Every day for the past seven weeks Mrs Abbley had visited Keswick Hospital to be by her husband's side. She said she had never known kindness such as had been shown by the doctors and nurses at the hospital.”
1932 'HIS HOUR.', Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954), 14 November, p. 2,
ADAMS, Edgar Ralph S207
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ADAMS, Tobias Lawrence St. John 12586
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AITKEN, Francis Raymond 7200
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BERG, Arthur Halin 5002
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BERTWISTLE, Wilfrid Hall 519
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BLACKBURN, Arthur Seaforth VC CBE CMG ED
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Blackburn did not fit the physical stereotype of the bronzed Anzac, but the scrawny, knobbly-kneed solicitor proved to have a tenacity and courage beyond belief and brought South Australia the first of the Empire's highest honours - the Victoria Cross.
On 23 July 1916, at Pozières, France, the 23 year old second lieutenant led an attack for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Blackburn was directed with 50 men to drive the enemy from a strong point. By great determination he captured 250 yards of trench, after personally leading four separate parties of bombers against it, many of whom became casualties. Then after crawling forward with a sergeant to reconnoitre, he returned,
Blackburn returned to Australia on 22 March 1917, marrying Rose Ada Kelly, and being discharged on medical grounds soon after. He returned to legal practice and took an active part in the pro-conscription campaigns. During 1918–21 he was Nationalist member for Sturt in the House of Assembly; he did not seek re-election in 1921.
Blackburn was a founding member of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League in South Australia, where he served as president of the State branch from 1917–21. He joined the militia in 1924. In 1933–47 he was city coroner, in which office he encountered and ignored criticism for refusing to offer public explanation for any decision not to hold an inquest.
In 1939, Blackburn was promoted Lieutenant Colonel and took command of a motorized cavalry regiment, the 18th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment. He ceased legal practice in 1940. He was appointed to command the 2/3rd Australian Machine-Gun Battalion, which fought under his command in Syria against the Vichy French in 1941 Blackburn, as the senior Allied officer present, accepted the surrender of Damascus on 21 June, and after the campaign was a member of the Allied Control Commission for Syria.
In February 1942, Blackburn landed with a small Australian force in Java. There he was promoted to brigadier and appointed to command 'Black Force', to assist the Dutch against the rapid Japanese advance. After three weeks' vigorous but fruitless resistance, and in spite of Blackburn's reluctance, the Allied forces surrendered on 9 March 1942.
Blackburn was the senior officer of the Black Force prisoner group, which included 300 Australian seamen from HMAS Perth. He was improsoned at Changi camp following official surrender to Japanese forces in Second World War. He remained a prisoner of war until September 1945 when he was liberated in Mukden, Manchuria, weak but not broken in health. In 1946 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his distinguished service in Java. He received his discharge in 1946.
In 1947–55 Blackburn served as a conciliation commissioner in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and again as State president of the RSL from 1946–1949.
Blackburn died on 24 November 1960 at Crafers, South Australia from a ruptured aneurism of the common iliac artery, and was buried in the AIF section of Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
On 23 July 1916, at Pozières, France, the 23 year old second lieutenant led an attack for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Blackburn was directed with 50 men to drive the enemy from a strong point. By great determination he captured 250 yards of trench, after personally leading four separate parties of bombers against it, many of whom became casualties. Then after crawling forward with a sergeant to reconnoitre, he returned,
Blackburn returned to Australia on 22 March 1917, marrying Rose Ada Kelly, and being discharged on medical grounds soon after. He returned to legal practice and took an active part in the pro-conscription campaigns. During 1918–21 he was Nationalist member for Sturt in the House of Assembly; he did not seek re-election in 1921.
Blackburn was a founding member of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League in South Australia, where he served as president of the State branch from 1917–21. He joined the militia in 1924. In 1933–47 he was city coroner, in which office he encountered and ignored criticism for refusing to offer public explanation for any decision not to hold an inquest.
In 1939, Blackburn was promoted Lieutenant Colonel and took command of a motorized cavalry regiment, the 18th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment. He ceased legal practice in 1940. He was appointed to command the 2/3rd Australian Machine-Gun Battalion, which fought under his command in Syria against the Vichy French in 1941 Blackburn, as the senior Allied officer present, accepted the surrender of Damascus on 21 June, and after the campaign was a member of the Allied Control Commission for Syria.
In February 1942, Blackburn landed with a small Australian force in Java. There he was promoted to brigadier and appointed to command 'Black Force', to assist the Dutch against the rapid Japanese advance. After three weeks' vigorous but fruitless resistance, and in spite of Blackburn's reluctance, the Allied forces surrendered on 9 March 1942.
Blackburn was the senior officer of the Black Force prisoner group, which included 300 Australian seamen from HMAS Perth. He was improsoned at Changi camp following official surrender to Japanese forces in Second World War. He remained a prisoner of war until September 1945 when he was liberated in Mukden, Manchuria, weak but not broken in health. In 1946 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his distinguished service in Java. He received his discharge in 1946.
In 1947–55 Blackburn served as a conciliation commissioner in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and again as State president of the RSL from 1946–1949.
Blackburn died on 24 November 1960 at Crafers, South Australia from a ruptured aneurism of the common iliac artery, and was buried in the AIF section of Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
BLACKMAN, Edward 4750
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BRADLEY, Alfred Lionel 4133
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BROOK, George James 3126
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BROWN, Coulthard Fleming 3698
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CARMICHAEL, Robert Royden
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CHARTIER, Wilfred Hugh 8492
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CHENEY, Henry Arundel 806
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Observer Newspaper
Mrs. Brailey of Princes road, Mitcham, has been officially notified that her brother, Sgt. H A Cheney has been killed in action in France. Sgt. Cheney left South Australia with the original 10th Battalion, and took part in the memorable landing on Gallipoli, with his brother, Lieut. E.L. Cheney MC who is at present serving in the same Battalion (50th) in France. He left Egypt for the western front in June 1916, and while serving in the trenches ad the muscles of one of his ankles badly sprained. He was invalided to England, and after his recovery went through the Chelsea School of Instruction, gaining 135 points out of a possible 150. He returned to France, and was killed in action on April 2, at the age of 26 years. The deceased was a prominent member of the Church of England Men's Society, and an energetic worker in connection with St. Michael's Church Mitcham, and St. Luke's, Adelaide. He was of a bright and genial disposition, and although he had been only five years in the Commonwealth, had made hosts of friends. He was connected with the Druid's Lodge, and has left three sisters - Mrs. J. Brailey, Miss Cheney, and Miss M Cheney, all of Mitcham.
Mrs. Brailey of Princes road, Mitcham, has been officially notified that her brother, Sgt. H A Cheney has been killed in action in France. Sgt. Cheney left South Australia with the original 10th Battalion, and took part in the memorable landing on Gallipoli, with his brother, Lieut. E.L. Cheney MC who is at present serving in the same Battalion (50th) in France. He left Egypt for the western front in June 1916, and while serving in the trenches ad the muscles of one of his ankles badly sprained. He was invalided to England, and after his recovery went through the Chelsea School of Instruction, gaining 135 points out of a possible 150. He returned to France, and was killed in action on April 2, at the age of 26 years. The deceased was a prominent member of the Church of England Men's Society, and an energetic worker in connection with St. Michael's Church Mitcham, and St. Luke's, Adelaide. He was of a bright and genial disposition, and although he had been only five years in the Commonwealth, had made hosts of friends. He was connected with the Druid's Lodge, and has left three sisters - Mrs. J. Brailey, Miss Cheney, and Miss M Cheney, all of Mitcham.
CLARK, William Clifford
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COLLCUTT, Henry Albert John 518
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COLLIGAN, Frederick William 1763A
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CRAGG, Richard Edward 1436
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CUTTEN, Charles Edward 2577
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DAVIS, Frederick Gordon 730
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DENNIS, Clifford Edwin 1706
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DINGLE, Wallace Henry 2129
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DONALDSON, Archibald 2180
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DORIS, Arthur Dennis 113
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ELLIS, Walter Norman 1917
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FEARN, Arthur Hey 15933
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FEATHERSTONE, Charles Lawrence 28589
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FURNESS, William Wadsworth 1381
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FYFE, Robert Still 6065
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GEORGE, Lawrence Frank 149
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GRAY, William Watt Erskine
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HART, John Herriot 5537
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HART, Laurence George 135 MM DCM
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HARWOOD, Frank Norman 983
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HAWKES, Albert Ashleigh S70400Born 27 April 1894 at Norwood, SA
Son of Albert Edward HAWKES and Amy Mary nee BINKS Of Fisher Street, Fullarton Estate, SA Enlisted Adelaide, SA Service Records not available at www.naa.gov.au Died 10 October 1967 at Adelaide, SA Aged 73 years Resided Comet Avenue, Unley, SA Buried Centennial Park Cemetery West Gardens Path W23 Grave 037 State Records of SA GRG 26/5/4/815 |
HAWKES, Alfred James 8793a
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HESLOP, William 31527
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HOWIE, Laurence Hotham 5710
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HUMPHRIES, Harold William 95
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Observer Newspaper
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Humphries of 'Westana' King William road, North Unley, have received information that their son, Sgt. Harold W. Humphries was killed in action in France on November 5. Sgt. Humphries, who was born in Wallaroo, was in his 21st year. He was educated primarily at the Frematle Boy's School, and later at Prince Alfred College. He was on the staff of the Queensland Insurance Company, Adelaide, previous to enlisting in the 27th Battalion under Lieut. Col. Dollman. He saw service in Gallipoli for some time, was invalided to England with enteric fever, and after recouperating went to France. Sgt. Humphries was of fine physique, and a good all-round athlete. His sterling qualities and loveable disposition made him a general favourite, and news of this death will come as a great shock.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Humphries of 'Westana' King William road, North Unley, have received information that their son, Sgt. Harold W. Humphries was killed in action in France on November 5. Sgt. Humphries, who was born in Wallaroo, was in his 21st year. He was educated primarily at the Frematle Boy's School, and later at Prince Alfred College. He was on the staff of the Queensland Insurance Company, Adelaide, previous to enlisting in the 27th Battalion under Lieut. Col. Dollman. He saw service in Gallipoli for some time, was invalided to England with enteric fever, and after recouperating went to France. Sgt. Humphries was of fine physique, and a good all-round athlete. His sterling qualities and loveable disposition made him a general favourite, and news of this death will come as a great shock.
HURRELL, John Roderick 2123
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HUSSIN, Thomas 12725
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HYMAN, Oscar Henric 10
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ILLMAN, Harold 6832
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JACKSON, Harold Edgar 941
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JACKSON, Percy Edward
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JOHNSON, Bertie Leroy 752
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JONES, George Reginald 5997
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JUDD, Frank James Foy S13554
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KIRKWOOD, Herbert Henry 1463
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LECORNU, Eric Watsford 56106
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LEECH, Arthur Temlett 6532
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LEPLEY, William George 63953
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LINN, Frederick Charles
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MAGAREY, Donald Dunbar 12644
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MALPAS, Percy Godfrey 5183
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MASKELL, Ronald 2669
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MAUGHAN, James Montrose
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MELDRUM, Eric Douglas 41
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MELDRUM, Roy Stevenson 5328
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MOORE, Richard James 1875
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MOWAT, Cedric James William 1904
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MACDONALD, Alexander Henry
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McPHERSON, John Urquhart 12638
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PLUNKET, Charles Francis 597
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ROGERS, Herbert Haddon 1975
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ROWETT, Ronald John 368
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SMITHAM, Charles Gordon 1990
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STROUT, John Alexander Diggory MM 12674
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TATTERSALL, Edgar 19971
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THWAITES, Harry Lloyd 687A
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WHIBLEY, Clyde Alva Newton 6649
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WRIGHT, William Jonathan 2757
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WUNDENBERG, Ferdinand Theodore 2167
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WUNDENBERG, Frederick William Charles 569
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