WW1 Australian Soldiers & Nurses who rest in the United Kingdom

2015-09-27 15.44.15.jpgCommemorative web project produced by Beth Page and with contributions from Cathy Sedgwick recording the final resting place of Australians that died in the UK during the Great War, containing soldier profiles, photographs and grave / memorial pictures. There are nineteen members of the 22nd Battalion that died while in the UK, either as a result of their wounds, illness or accident during training. Click here to access the website for the complete and detailed information.

22nd Battalion Casualties commemorated in the UK:-

1049 Corporal BAILLIE, R G (Died of Wounds; Reading Cemetery)

4373 Private BOLLOM, E W (Illness; Brockenhurst Church)

4381 Corporal BRODIE, J D (Accident; Penicuik Cemetery)

6177 Private CANHAM, H C (Illness; Durrington Cemetery)

5968 Private COLLETT, J M (Illness; Plymouth Cemetery)

4442 Private GILLIN, W M (Died of Wounds; St.Albans Cemetery)

5018 Private GRATTON, S J (Illness; Landkey Churchyard)

4452 Private HAM, W F (Died of Wounds; Bristol Cemetery)

61868 Private HIGGINS, D C (Illness; Sutton Veny Churchyard)

182 2nd Corporal KNELL, E N (Illness; Harefield Cemetery)

6846 Private LAWSON, A (Illness; Norwich Cemetery)

4495 Private MOLONEY, J R (Illness; Hursley Church Cemetery)

3904 Private PODMORE, J (Illness; Sutton Veny Churchyard)

897 Private SCOTT, G A (Illness; Harefield Cemetery)

6902 Private SHARP, D (Manslaughter – at sea; Hollybrook Memorial)

4544 Private STURGESS, A (Died of Wounds, St. Albans Cemetery)

5917 Private THORNELL, E A (Illness; Melcombe Regis Cemetery)

5099 Private VIDLER, E G (Illness; Hollybrook Memorial)

5109 Private WILSON, J (Died of Wounds; Brookwood Military Cemetery)

Lest We Forget

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