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Victor Norman Chandler MM
| caption = The Drill of the Foot-Hills ...s later on 16 Oct 1918 he was allocated to the 6th reinforcement draft for the 28th Battalion and he travelled to Egypt with them.

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Thomas Albert Leslie Cheney
...n on 23 Nov 1916 by which time he had been again reallocated, this time to the 3rd Division's [[11th Machine Gun Company]]. ...n 5 Jun 1917 he embarked on [[HMHS Brighton]] for England where he entered the Middlesex War Hospital.

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Frederick Charles Close
...ralia had served for 6 years with the Bechuanaland Expedition Force during the Boer Wars. The 1910 and 1912 Electoral Rolls show he and Caroline at Wannamal, farming, be

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Aubrey Cecil Dawson
...rom Alexandria on 29 Mar 1916. arriving in Marseilles on 3 Apr 1916 aboard the [[HMT Corsican]]. ...g in underground bunkers. They were then tasked with a further advance to the railway line.

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Thomas Henry William Denny
Member of the Armadale-Kelmscott Road Board 1915 - 1916. ...after he arrived in camp he was reallocated from the 45th Depot Company to the [[44th Battalion]] and he travelled with them to England for further traini

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Thomas William Dowell
| caption = "Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire" p.141 He is listed as William Thomas on the AIF website.

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Reginald Samuel Roquerbre Dutton
...ists Reg Dutton as being a farmer in Armadale, although he disappears from the directory until 1920 when he reappears in Armadale as a farmer once again. ...apetown 21 Jun 1916, St Vincent 7 July 1916, and Plymouth on 18 Jul 1916. The next day they entrained for [[Tidworth]] where they undertook specialist tr

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Albert John Egan MID
...resident of the Bedfordale Agricultural and Horticultural Society prior to the war. ...general training, Albert was allocated to the 11th reinforcement draft for the 11th Battalion, travelling with them to Egypt.

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Robert Alexander Fernie
...Suez via Bombay where they changed ship. Robert was an acting Corporal for the voyage. ...aid rest camp. He rejoined his unit in the field and had another break at the rest camp in Jul 1918.

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Charles Fielder
While the family lived in Armadale, Charles in 1916 signed his enlistment documents i ...sembarking in the UK, he was sent to one of the many training battalion on the Salisbury Plains in Wiltshire.

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William Henry Gauthern
...nce with the Royal Canadian Artillery just short of 15 years. Was missing the middle and second toes on his right foot, hence fit for Medical duties only ...recalled after reaching Durban in South Africa on its way to England with the declaration of an Armistice. On arrival at Woodman's Point he was found to

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Stephen Gittins
...he journeyed to Le Havre in France via Southampton. On arrival he entered the 2nd Division's Base Depot at Le Havre before being sent forward to join his ...an advance of 1918, and then the early battles as they were forced back up the Somme valley.

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Leslie James Godfrey
...fall victim of a Turkish artillery shell which caused a 'slight' wound to the back of his neck on 16 Jul 1915. ...in Malta via the [[HMHS Sicilia]] on 16 Jul 1915, he returned to Egypt on the [[HMT Karoa]] leaving Malta on 12 Aug 1915.

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James Edward Grabham
...ov.au/nla.news-article80891685 |title=CALL TO ARMS. |newspaper=[[The Daily News]] |volume=XXXV, |issue=12,814 |location=Western Australia |date=4 March 191 ...nduction after which he was transferred to the 5th reinforcement draft for the 51st Battalion, travelling with them to England.

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John Francis Grabham MM
| fate1 = Died of Influenza 15 Nov 1918 in the 41st Stationary Hospital, Amiens, France ...s Smith was given a send off on Saturday 13th September."<ref>The drill of the Foot-Hills 191 Sep edition, page 7.</ref>

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Arthur Charles Grafham
Arthur arrived in Fremantle from England aboard the SS Gothic from London on 27 Jan 1913.<ref>Passenger arrivals index, 1898 - ...v 1916, and Freetown 29 Nov 1916 (a 16 day lay over waiting for a convoy). The voyage lasted 65 days from Melbourne to Plymouth.

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Bertie Greenfield
...tern Australian companies travelled to South Australia to join the rest of the unit before travelling to Egypt. ...six months of training and guarding the Suez Canal Zone, they embarked on the [[HMT Transylvania]] in Alexandria (17 Jun 1916) for Marseilles in southern

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Frazer Paterson Henderson
...einforcements to Engineering reinforcements. Promoted Acting Corporal for the voyage to Alexandria. In Egypt Frazer was taken on strength of the [[15th Field Company - Engineers]] at Tel-el-Kebir on 18 Mar 1916, before s

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Charles Richard Irvine MM & Bar
...e 1st Convoy to Alexandria. If so there is nothing in his records to cover the period from arrival in Egypt until he embarked for Gallipoli. ...nth before the evacuation. Charles returned to Egypt on 22 Dec 1915 aboard the [[HMAT A38 Ulysses]]. On 23 Mar 1916 he departed Alexandria, Egypt for Mars

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Albert Stephenson Jackson
...y. Within a month, Albert was allocated to the 6th reinforcement draft for the 12th Battalion, and he travelled with them to Egypt, and a month later to G ...combination of hand to hand and bombing of those who manned barricades in the trenches.

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