Flight Sergeant Colin Eric Mengel, No. 12 Squadron (RAF)
Colin Mengel was born on 29 July 1924, one of three sons to Arthur and May Mengel of Mackay, Queensland.
4340 Bombadier Ernest Henry WIBER DCM
Ernest Henry Wiber DCM
Born 28 August 1888 Forest Gate, Essex, England
Occupation: Seaman
Service: 4th Volunteer Bn, Royal Fusiliers
Rupert Markham Sadler DSO, MC, VD
Born 8 October 1893, Paddington, NSW
Record Clerk - NSWFB
Militia, NSW Scottish Rifles
Colonel Reuter Emerich ROTH CMG, DSO, VD.
Born 20 March 1858, Brighton, Sussex, England
1334 Sergeant Thomas Charles REID MM
Thomas Charles Reid MM
Born June 1895
Occupation: Saw Mill Hand
1260 Private Arnold MARKEY MM
Born 2 April 1892 Hay, NSW. Occupation: Hairdresser
Service: NSWFB
Appointed Hay Volunteer Fire Brigade 1 March 1915
Resigned 31 July 1915
1167 Sergeant William Stuart Kilpatrick MM
Born 31 January 1894, Marrickville
Occupation: Fireman
Service: Militia, St George Rifles (5 years)
3764 Private Hubert Holland KEMPE MM
Born December 1895 Barraga, New South Wales
Residence: Cessnock
Occupation: Auctioneer
2466 WO Class II Battery Sergeant Major Frederick Creeke DCM
2466 Warrant Officer Class II Frederick Creeke DCM
Born January 1891 Tauranga New Zealand
Occupation: Fireman
28161 Driver Hilary Ambrose Coveny MM
Recommendation for the Military Medal
28161 Driver Hilary Ambrose Coveny, 110th Howitzer battery, 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
7383 SGT Walter Thomas Carr MSM
Born 19 February 1889 London, Occupation: Seaman
1133 Sergeant James Berry MM
1133 Sergeant James Berry MM
Born December 1885 Alexandria, Sydney
Occupation: Plasterer
Lt Samuel William Aldenton
Born 8 January 1887 West Norwood London, Occupation: Fireman
21 Private Ernest Gordon
Born: 15th April 1888, Liverpool, England
Previous Occupation: Pursers Writer, Fireman
242 Lieutenant Leslie James West DCM
Leslie James West.
Born: 1890 at Kempsey, NSW. Occupation: Storekeeper
The Gallipoli Flag at St John’s Cathedral – a national treasure
Displayed in St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane is an ancient “Union Jack”, one of Australia’s most significant and symbolic war treasures.
Beersheba Memorial and Light Horse Tribute
Horses and Menangle Park have always gone hand-in-hand.
WORLD WAR I
Driver Martin Henry Farrington, 110th Australian Howitzer Battery, AIF
Martin Farrington was born on the 28th of October 1895 to Mick and Mary Farrington in Mackay, Queensland. He attended the convent school in Mackay.
213151 Corporal Robert “Bob” Walter Bowtell, 3rd Field Troop, Royal Australian Engineers
Robert Bowtell was born on the 25th of April 1932 at Turramurra, New South Wales, to Albert and Eva Bowtell. He grew up in the Blue Mountains and attended Katoomba High School.
Lance Corporal Edward Benson, 2/12th Battalion, AIF
Edward Benson was born on 6 September 1914 in Launceston, Tasmania, the eldest son of Adolf Tideman Bentson and Margaret Bentson.
Sister Minnie Ivy Hodgson, 2/13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Army Nursing Service
Sister Minnie Ivy Hodgson was one of 65 Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women and children evacuated on the Vyner Brooke from Singapore, three days before
Sister Gladys Myrtle McDonald, 13th Australian General Hospital, Royal Australian Army Nursing Service
Today we remember and pay tribute to Sister Gladys Myrtle McDonald, who died during the Second World War.
92533 Corporal Ruth Ada Hills, WAAAF
Born in the Western Sydney suburb of Petersham on the 22nd of May 1923, Hills was the daughter of Edward Reuben and Elise Earl Hills.
Private Frank Stanley Smiles, 19th Battalion, AIF
Frank Smiles was born in Albury, New South Wales, in 1883. He was one of ten children born to Thomas and Bridget Smiles.