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  • ...pres and was on the receiving end of very severe shelling which caused few casualties. However, Bill was listed as Wounded in action, later changed to Wounded &
    5 KB (719 words) - 17:31, 10 August 2021
  • Generally the Ambulance trains carried casualties to hospitals near the French coast where they received further treatment be
    13 KB (1,719 words) - 19:29, 1 November 2023
  • Any casualties not expected to return to duty within a month were evacuated to Britain. Af
    4 KB (626 words) - 14:14, 19 August 2021
  • ...tralian & New Zealand troops, the Anzacs, at Gallipoli on 25th April 1915, casualties mounted rapidly and were initially transported to their base in Egypt, whic As casualties mounted further on the Western Front, it became necessary to open a third c
    8 KB (1,102 words) - 16:22, 21 December 2021
  • ...eux on 25 April 1918, during the Second Battle of the Somme. The brigade's casualties during the offensive were heavy. After the German offensive was blunted, th
    3 KB (439 words) - 23:51, 15 March 2021
  • ...ch attack was eventually repelled, as were all others later in the battle. Casualties for the 30 odd hours of the battle were 5 KIA, 20 WIA (5 from Ron's company
    9 KB (1,280 words) - 00:15, 14 July 2022
  • ...ing the Battle for Messines, where like the 34th Battalion they took heavy casualties due to German gas shelling. Their assault force was reduced to about 120 m
    3 KB (477 words) - 14:40, 18 February 2022
  • The Kalgoorlie Miner and other newspapers on 14 Jun 1941 published AIF Casualties that included 115 missing in action- with Bill named as one of them, as was
    8 KB (1,172 words) - 16:30, 11 February 2023
  • ...ter 30 minutes of skillful leadership he took the position without further casualties, and then collapsed through loss of blood. <ref>''Battalion into Battle - T ...rporal Hicks, by skillful leadership captured the position without further casualties."</blockquote> The full citation reads: ''For outstanding courage and devo
    7 KB (950 words) - 14:31, 17 November 2023
  • ...n and its transport came under regular attack by German fighter aircraft. Casualties for the day numbered 4 Killed in action and 11 wounded. Mervyn was one of
    5 KB (639 words) - 14:58, 11 December 2023
  • ...ed up and marched through the British artillery barrage, resulting in more casualties, as they moved behind the German lines. Over 500, including Herb were taken
    8 KB (1,114 words) - 12:33, 6 July 2022
  • ...re Finchhafen, but it wasn't until after George's death that they suffered casualties in battle. Therefore it might have been at Lae that George was wounded in t
    5 KB (661 words) - 14:46, 11 December 2023
  • ...then cut off and surrounded by German infantry and armour. Suffering heavy casualties, the majority of the battalion – around 500 men – was forced to surrend
    7 KB (858 words) - 12:31, 6 July 2022
  • ...nd fracture of the right Tibia. He was a member of a patrol that sustained casualties when it ran into an enemy unit. He was evacuated to the [[2/4th Australian
    6 KB (813 words) - 12:12, 23 February 2023
  • ...2 the battalion launches an attack on enemy positions on Ruin Ridge. Heavy casualties were sustained in, and near, a minefield with Tom seemingly one of them. Hi
    11 KB (1,521 words) - 17:45, 18 April 2022
  • ...ed up and marched through the British artillery barrage, resulting in more casualties, as they moved behind the German lines. Over 500, including Norman were tak
    8 KB (1,021 words) - 19:13, 7 July 2022
  • ...the night of 8/9 February. Although the battalion was able to cause heavy casualties amongst the invaders they were gradually pushed back from their positions o
    7 KB (886 words) - 13:58, 14 July 2022
  • ...on well entrenched Vichy French positions on 8 Jun 1941. They took heavier casualties than any other Australian unit (264), and remained after the local Armistic
    7 KB (975 words) - 14:51, 11 December 2023
  • ...istance between the battlefield and the Camp Hospital and the time it took casualties taken to walk out to it, this is likely to be when he was wounded. John ha
    8 KB (988 words) - 16:35, 13 July 2022
  • ...were given the role of defending the beach head from the north. A Coy took casualties on the first day of October and regular contact with enemy forces continued
    7 KB (726 words) - 15:04, 11 December 2023

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