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• David Forbes Abernethy
  ...odseinde Ridge]. The enemy shelled those working parties and the battalion casualties were 42 KIA, 91 WIA, and 5 Missing. David received a shell wound to his han
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• Leith John Newton Angelo
  ...ion's advance along the Somme River near Mericourt. He was one of the 105 casualties from his unit that day. After early treatment by the [[13th Field Ambulance
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• George Mouatt Dow
  ...r 4½ hours with gas shells, shrapnel and high explosives causing very few casualties. It follows that George was one of the 12 killed as no other action is men
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• HMAT A13 Katuna
  ...was bombed and sank on 6 Sep 1940 of the east coast of Scotland with three casualties.
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• Edward Armstrong
  ...6th November, while working as a stretcher bearer, carrying 19th Battalion casualties out of the line near Warlencourt, he and his fellow bearers were captured b
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• HMT Archangel
  ...an aircraft on 16 May 1941 while 10 kms east of Aberdeen with considerable casualties. The next day she ran ashore and broke up.
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• George Alexander Armstrong
  ...hieved this with only minor losses. The unit war diary reports only minor casualties, and those generally caused by artillery fire so we might assume that is ho
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• Hubert Maitland Armstrong MM
  ...ef>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article81789489 |title=W.A. Casualties |newspaper=[[The Daily News]] |volume=XXXVII, |issue=13,409 |location=Weste ...al risk. It was entirely due to their gallantry and devotion to duty that casualties were cleared quickly and many lives saved."</blockquote>
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• Robert Prior Bailey
  ...killed near Mericourt-sur-Somme. While the battalion suffered only light casualties, he was one of four men to lose their life from this action. ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27488865 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIV, |issue=5,123 |location=W
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• Edward James Bell
  ...May 1915 when they moved up to launch an attack on The Angle, taking heavy casualties in both the attack and the abortive attempt to hold the ground that they ha ...|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26944320 |title=WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXI, |issue=4,110 |location=We
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• Arthur Leworthy Bettenay
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27304522 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,763 |location=
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• Wilfred George Bettenay
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27458993 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,859 |location=
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• HS Pieter de Coninck
  ...ant Officer, 4 Nursing Sisters and 26 other ranks, and could transport 387 casualties at a time - 19 officers, 38 in cots and 320 in berths. Following the end of
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• Robert Frank Bickford
  ...ef>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article81819623 |title=W.A. Casualties |newspaper=[[The Daily News]] |volume=XXXVI, |issue=13,342 |location=Wester ...ef>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article81369712 |title=W.A. Casualties |newspaper=[[The Daily News]] |volume=XXXVII, |issue=13,562 |location=Weste
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• William Bingham
  ...successfully capturing their target, the "green line" by 4:00am with light casualties. However, about 300 casualties, possibly including William, occurred while trying to hang on to the ground
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• Gordon Bishop
  ...ttalion was back in the front line. The unit's War Diary doesn't speak of casualties, although the period 27th to 30th was spent in the front line advancing fro
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• HMHS Devanha
  ...nt to draw enemy fire. That evening the vessel evacuated her first load of casualties and began service as a hospital ship. As a hospital ship ''HMHS Devanha'' t ...fusion which resulted after the initial landing - and the large numbers of casualties - meant this system soon fell into disarray. ''HMHS Devanha'' and other hos
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• William Buck
  ...mated 3 to 4 thousand bombs (hand grenades) thrown during the attacks, and casualties were described as "heavy, but good work was done".
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• Leonard Henry (Lennie) Buckingham MM
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27297308 |title=WAR CASUALTIES |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,704 |location=W ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27299808 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,724 |location=
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• HMHS Panama
  ...e could load casualties. In 1943 she spent time in Greek waters evacuating casualties from the beaches and from Piraeus. She then went to Malta where she again s
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• William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
  ...en'' in front of Mouquet Farm during 14 Aug 1916 (where they sustained 302 casualties) William's actions won him a [[Military Medal]] and the [[St George Medal ( ...o the head while the battalion was in the line opposite Passchendaele (239 casualties sustained). Treated by the [[3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station]] on
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• HMT Corsican
  ...21 May 1923 she was wrecked, on Cape Freels Rock, Newfoundland in fog. No casualties were suffered.
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• Arthur Candish
  ...re complex medical attention as his hand was by then paralysed. One of 435 casualties suffered by his battalion at the battle named 1st Bullecourt.
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• William Wright Casterton MM
  ...not easy, and by the time they were relieved they had suffered approx. 300 casualties. William was one of these, gassed as a result of artillery shells. After t
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• Stanley Joseph Callow Champion
  ...take up a defensive position on the south east edge of the township. 375 casualties, including Stanley were suffered by the 12th Battalion alone on that day.
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• Victor Norman Chandler MM
  ...outh of the major attack on Bullecourt 1-2 days later. The 51st Battalion casualties for the action were 47 Killed and 192 WIA, some of whom died subsequently.<
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• Henry Thomas Cockram
  ...nt shelling and counter attack by the Germans during 14/16 Aug 1916. 302 casualties were sustained by the 51st Battalion during their two day stint in the fron
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• Claude Francis Cooper
  ...shell which also killed another soldier as they were the battalion's only casualties for the day. His wound was caused by shrapnel to the left buttock. Treated
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• Gordon Vidgen Cross
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27299289 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,720 |location=
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• HS Jan Breydel
  ...g Sisters and 28 Medical Corps personnel, and was able to handle 6 Officer casualties, 36 in cots and 116 in berths. She acted as a Hospital Ship from 27 Aug 191
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• Alexander Donald
  Alex was one of 302 casualties suffered by the 51st Battalion between 14 and 16 Jul 1916 at Mouquet Farm, ...talion who had a more substantial role. This time Alex was one of the 107 casualties suffered by the 51st Battalion on the day of the battle.
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• Frank William Dowell
  ...bombardment that accompanied the raid on 30 May caused over 100 Australian casualties, over 40 of whom were killed. Many of those killed during the raid were bur
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• Victor Emanuel Durling
  ...ed by shellfire, with injuries to his right hand and arm. He was one of 6 casualties that resulted from intermittent shelling before his company rotated out of
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• Joseph Charles Joshua Farnell
  ...unlikely that he would have been rushed into the front line, despite their casualties of 42 killed, 5 Missing, and 91 wounded. The 28th Battalion retired from th
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• Charles Fielder
  Charles was one of 107 casualties suffered by his unit during the five days that they were in support to the
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• Patrick Francis Fitzgerald
  Casualties for 24th and 25th August were 4 Killed, 24 wounded; 13 gassed. Patrick rec
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• HMAT A36 Boonah
  ...al of the immigration authorities to allow all of the soldiers ashore with casualties growing each day. Wrangling between the State Minister for Health, Sir Hal
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• Jack Hayden Gibson
  ...1st Machine Gun Company. There is no notation in the unit's War Diary of casualties on the 30th, and given that Jack's injuries were a severe Gunshot wound to
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• Alfred Gittins
  ...As uneventful a day as yesterday. Weather cold but fine. Mud drying up. Casualties to 6 a.m. 20.4.18 Four wounded."</blockquote> ...he spur beyond. Narrative: ......Weather splendid for such an operation. Casualties not heavy. Officers - 2 killed, 3 wounded. Other Ranks 11 killed, 62 woun
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• Stephen Gittins
  On 11 Aug 1918 Stephen was one of the "very light casualties" suffered by the 28th Battalion during an attack on the German front lines
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• Charles Maul Glover
  ...gether with five other attacks by the Australian units, resulted in 11,000 casualties during those attacks on Mouquet Farm.
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• William Arthur Green
  ...ches and deepening communications trench. Enemy artillery very active - 8 casualties, 2 since dead. Arrangements working well for supply of hot food to men in Bill was one of the eight casualties, having received a shell wound to his chest. Treated by the 3rd Stationary
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• Leslie Jeffery Harvey
  ...of a patrol that, during the night probed the enemy's position, with some casualties resulting, including himself. Seen by the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance be
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• John Hobbs
  ...at Broodseinde with a GSW to his thigh, when he was one of the day's heavy casualties (6 Officers wounded, 42 ORs KIA, 85 WIA, and 5 Missing). [Neville Bowning's ...the Somme River. The Battalion War diary entry for the day includes "The casualties were exceedingly light on our side."
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• Stephen Henry Horrocks
  ...find openings or make them in the face of intense machine gun fire. Heavy casualties resulted. A very intense artillery barrage of the enemy's prevented any re
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• HMHS Rewa
  ...s fully illuminated as a Hospital Ship. Taking almost three hours to sink, casualties were light and all were saved except for four engine room crew killed in th
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• Henry Ernest Howard
  ...rds Amiens. The out posted men did stop a major enemy attack. Most of the casualties suffered on 30 Mar 1918 by the 44th Battalion were members of 'B' Company.
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• Albert Stephenson Jackson
  ...ptured Turkish trenches to reinforce the 1st Brigade who were taking heavy casualties. The fighting was a combination of hand to hand and bombing of those who m ...alian General Hospital]] at Heliopolis in Egypt (10 Aug 1915). Australian casualties over a four day period numbered 2,277.
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• SS Orsova
  ...German submarine ''UC-68'' and was beached at Cawsand Bay in Cornwall. Six casualties resulted. She was later refloated and towed to Devonport for repairs. In 19
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• HMHS Assaye
  ...ficers, 10 Nurses and 45 other medical staff to look after up to 8 Officer casualties, 100 in cots, and 333 in berths. Served until 2 Mar 1920.
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• William Wilfred Gerald Liddington
  ...red to [[16th Battalion]] on 13 Oct 1917 after the 28th had suffered heavy casualties in the Broodseinde Ridge action.
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• Edgar Leslie Livermore
  ...tes he received his wound on 26 Apr 1915. [The unit's War Diary indicates casualties were 90 ORs wounded on 25th, 30 on 26th, and 60 between 27th and 28th.]
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• John Macarthur Livingston
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27298779 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,716 |location=
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• Charles Leonard Lockhart
  Their next attack was on Westhoek Ridge in late September, incurring very few casualties. On the evening of 10/11 Oct 1917 the battalion re-entered the front line
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• Thomas Brown Mack
  ...and wounded 23 other members of the 5th Pioneer Battalion, their heaviest casualties in the war to this point.
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• Edward Dudley Mann
  ...south east of the Bapaume town centre. The unit diary does not record any casualties for the day but he was subsequently treated by the [[2nd Field Ambulance]],
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• Stanley Thomas Marsh
  .... The 51st Battalion were to the north of the village, and sustained heavy casualties with 76 killed, 253 wounded and 60 found to be missing the next day. Stan'
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• HMHS Essequibo
  ...cers, 16 Nurses and 76 other medical staff, and could cater for 42 Officer casualties, 249 in cots, and 298 in Berths. Operating from 2 Sep 1915 following her co
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• Alfred Arthur Martin
  ...night of 5 Aug 1916, and until noon on 7 Aug 1916 they suffered very heavy casualties from continuous heavy shelling by the enemy [104 killed, 418 wounded and 76 ...shell came over and hit the last one of four cookhouses, causing forty-two casualties. I saw Private Bole there just before the explosion and all that could be
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• George Henry Martin MM MID
  ...f personal risk, he moved about amongst his men encouraging them, and when casualties occurred he was always to be found attending to the wounded. At great risk
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• Melbourne Hubert Randolph Matthews
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27299289 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,720 |location= ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27299289 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,720 |location=
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• Henry McCavana
  ...causing a lot of work rebuilding the trenches but fortunately causing few casualties.
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• Thomas McGow
  ...ompany moved up to reinforce other elements of the battalion who had taken casualties. He was treated by the [[2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station]] on 10 J
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• Samuel Vivian Mortimer
  ...in the reserve trenches near Westhoek Ridge in Belgium, Sam was one of the casualties of a heavy German artillery bombardment. (Five killed and 24 wounded.) A
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• John Waldegrave Packer
  ...the Germans launched a raiding party on the Australian lines. Australian casualties were four diggers who were Killed in Action and John who was wounded when h
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• Keith George Harman Podger
  ...ed into the front lines for the first time in the Petillon section, taking casualties almost immediately from enemy artillery bombardments. Relieved from the fro
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• Charles William Price
  ...after 2am. 63 KIA, 151 WIA, 257 MIA. More than 50% of the Battalion were casualties.
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• HMT Arcadian
  ...estroyer that came to her assistance was itself torpedoed, causing further casualties.
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• Robert Lauden Rayner
  ...achine gun fire. As a result they were unable to reach their objectives. Casualties in the battalion numbered 60 KIA, 172 WIA and 50 MIA. Those who survived w
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• Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor
  ...Enquiry judged that he had been Killed in Action, one of 11,000 Australian casualties suffered while trying to capture this strong point in the German line.
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• Hartland Wheare Richards
  ...d back to their start point. The unit's War Diary, instead of listing the casualties, instead listed those who came back such was the loss of personnel. It was ...s only. Card was addressed to: Pte John Angelo 16th AIF 26 July 1917. C2 casualties France.</blockquote>
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• Alfred Arthur (Fred) Rouse
  ...night of 29 Jun 1916. Nine months later, he was one of the large number of casualties suffered by the 16th Battalion in its attack on Reincourt during the 1st Ba
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• Francis Henry Ryniker
  ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26994113 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXII, |issue=4,535 |location=W
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• Felix Edmund John Sainsbury
  ...ands with him as he left the trench to go back." </blockquote> One of 107 casualties suffered by the 51st Battalion during a 3 day period in the front lines. ...aged across the front lines during the day of the 9th March and that a few casualties had resulted amongst the 51st Battalion including Pte F.E. Sainsbury from 9
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• Lionel Newton Savage
  ...ile taking very few casualties. However, they then were to lose up to 300 casualties defending their new positions, twice having to fall back under shelling by
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• Ernest William Serls
  ...their objectives, while suffering what were described as 'reasonably light casualties', Ernie Serls was one of them. Neville Browning's book explains that "Corpo
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• John (Junior) Shepherd
  ...o surrender. In the meantime German snipers and machine guns were causing casualties amongst the Australians who eventually fought their way out. As a result of
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• William Simpson
  ...articipate in the attack itself, it is reasonable to assume that most were casualties from artillery bombardments.
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• Norman Leslie Skewes
  ...r 1918 when Norman was recorded as being wounded, relates to three wounded casualties incurred by a patrol during the darkness before dawn. Norman suffered a gun
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• Alfred Slee
  On 7 Jul 1917 the unit War Diary makes no specific mention of casualties that day, but for the month, the unit lost 21 KIA, and 70 WIA. Alfred's inj
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• William Stephens
  ...while holding it against enemy rifle, machine gun and artillery fire. The casualties after three days in the line were 45 KIA, 41 MIA, and 137 WIA of whom Bill
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• John Edward Thomson
  ...ugh very heavy fire to the enemy front line trenches again suffering heavy casualties. By 8:00pm the 31st Battalion was down to approx. 200 men, and were surviv The 31st Battalion suffered 572 casualties, well over half of its strength. On 30 Jul 1916 John, who had survived inta
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• Albert Thomas Ticklie MM
  ...n the 5th and 6th of August 1916. Food and ammunition coming forward and casualties going back had to traverse 450 metres of open land. Albert earned his [[M ...ous; traversing open ground with heavily laden stretchers and consequently casualties amongst the bearers were extremely high. Throughout the night Privates R.
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• Alfred Martin Tilly
  ...nd reorganisation after coming out of the line where they had suffered 377 casualties, including 85 who were either killed or died from their wounds. On 7 Jun 19
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• John Alexander Trotter
  ...ir starting positions by late afternoon of the 12th. The 48th Battalion's casualties were 373 killed or wounded of the 621 who participated in the attack. It i ...eaten back by a superior enemy force but not before there were significant casualties on both sides. The 48th Battalion lost 159 men, one of whom was John. His
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• John Wesley Gladstone Turner
  ...rcements for A Company (normal full strength was about 240), so very heavy casualties had been inflicted on them. Jack, survivor of the Landing and Gabe Tepe rai ...which neither shrapnel of machine gun or rifle fire could shift. But the casualties of our Brigade were awful, Dad, for the first few days, for we could only d
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• Albert Cornelius Jesse Verrier
  ...30 May, and although they were able to see the enemy off, the battalion's casualties were 36 KIA, 6 MIA, and 61 WIA, more than 10% of the total unit strength. O ...ight. The 11th Battalion, along with other units involved suffered severe casualties in what many felt was the worst bombardment ever faced by the Australians.
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• Charles Alexander Wann
  ...lling weather conditions. During October, the 44th Battalion suffered 337 casualties, Charles being one of them on the 12th near Poperinghe. He was first seen b
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• Clarence Victor Watson
  ...that Clarence's wound was caused during either the initial advance when 60 casualties were caused by enemy machine guns in the villages of Noreuil and Longatte,
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• Arthur Werndly
  ...Hindenburg Outpost Line. The attack was successful with relatively light casualties on the Australian side. Arthur was one of only 15 killed that day, with an
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• HMHS Formosa
  ...made at least one earlier trip, perhaps from Mudros (but as it had British casualties on board, it may have been direct from the Cape Helles landing) to Egypt in
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• 12th Battalion
  ...n and discharge. The 12th Battalion was disbanded in 1919 having sustained casualties of 1,135 killed and 2,422 wounded.
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• 57th Battalion
  ...es in 24 hours. Given that their role was as the reserve, they took fewer casualties than other units in the 5th Division and so were to spend additional time i
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• John Whittaker
  ...on the Messines Ridge in Belgium. While the battalion suffered only light casualties, caused primarily by enemy artillery fire, John was one of the 24 killed du
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• Edith Marion Wilson
  ...lian Auxiliary Hospital]] (1AAH) at Harefield. 1AAH specialised in battle casualties, in particular amputees to be returned to Australia.
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• HMT Durham Castle
  ...so she collided with ''HMS Rival'' and suffered severe damage and several casualties.
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• James Winning
  ...in a most dashing manner under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. As their casualties were considerable in carrying out this operation I did not consider the rem ...d with heavy loss and the whole of the trench left in our possession. Our casualties were very heavy, especially from bomb wounds. KIA 41 {including James}; WI
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• Ivor Trehane Birtwistle
  ..., 134 wounded and 19 missing. Similar shelling, causing a similar level of casualties was also suffered the following day.
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• Gordon Devereux MM
  ...hes of the Western Front for the first time. The battalion suffered slight casualties from artillery fire while in the front line. The 51st Battalion then played
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• Spencer Gwynne DCM MID
  ...h spent the entire month of August. The 10th Light Horse Regiment suffered casualties every day they held the front line trenches, and on 16 Aug 1915 at Russell'
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• Robert George McLean
  ...the 5th and the day of the 6th Aug, the 48th Battalion suffered very heavy casualties as there was little effective cover from the very heavy artillery bombardme
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• Herbert Ernest Baldwin
  ...ttery was shelled by about 140 enemy shells, causing some minor damage and casualties. This continued for about a month and on the 18 Feb 1917 they were hit wi ...eat success with more than 7,000 German POWs captured in addition to their casualties.
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• William Henry Baldwin
  ...cted as unfit for military service. However, after the AIF suffered heavy casualties, he again applied in September and this time was accepted, (3247) and was a ...gium. At the time, the 48th Battalion was having a rest after taking heavy casualties during the battle for Messines Ridge.
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• Richard John James Bransby
  ...was able to regain any ground lost during the attacks, but suffered heavy casualties in doing so. They were also spasmodically bombarded throughout the day.
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• Arthur Thomas Feast
  ...Oct 1916. The battalion at that time was still recovering from the heavy casualties suffered by them at Mouquet Farm during August. When Arthur joined them th ...being attacked on the 16th Battalion's right flank. The group took heavy casualties from enemy artillery fire. Seen in France by the 3rd Stationary Hospital on
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• 1st Australian General Hospital
  ...for patients on 29 Apr 1916 and was structured to cater for general battle casualties. Patients came from all British and British empire nations, but only enlist
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• Martin Abolin
  ...r, very severe and before the battalion was relieved we suffered about 300 casualties.</blockquote>
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• John Alexander Adamson
  ...was in the line in fine weather, subject to enemy artillery which caused 3 casualties that day, all wounded. John was one of these men. Seen the same day by firs
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• Herbert Wright Aldred
  ...ews |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80892407 |title=West Australian Casualties. |newspaper=[[The Daily News]] |volume=XXXV, |issue=12,838 |location=Wester ...|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article81374937 |title=WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES |newspaper=[[The Daily News]] |volume=XXXV, |issue=12,882 |location=Western
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• Charles Barnett
  ...unds at 7:30am the same day. The battalion's war diary records very light casualties for the month of May 1916 (11 KIA/DOW and 38 wounded) as they were intrench
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• Robert Henry Blake
  ...nown as 2nd Bullecourt. Over the next 48 hours the battalion suffered 169 casualties. Robert was admitted to the [[7th Field Ambulance]] with myalgia on 16 Aug
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• HMHS Soudan
  One of the vessels used for the reception, treatment and movement of casualties during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-1916. She had capacity to accommodate
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• Frederick John Chester
  ...hey managed to capture the entire trench and set up defendable positions. Casualties were 14 KIA and 70 WIA.<ref>AWM4 23/45/43 - October 1918 pages 6-9</ref></b
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• Ernest Henry Chisholm
  ...on 20 Sep 1917. On this occasion, the 28th Battalion suffered fairly heavy casualties in the Battle called Menin Road, with 66 killed, 190 wounded and 36 unaccou
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• Donald Victor Chisholm
  ...eir objective and instead penetrated into Pozières itself sustaining many casualties. Donald was treated by the [[2nd Field Ambulance]] on 23 Jul 1916 before b
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• Frank Ernest Cousens
  ...r a very heavy artillery bombardment by the enemy, and they suffered heavy casualties.
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• Patrick (John) Curo
  ...hile minimal casualties were suffered in capturing their objectives, heavy casualties in the order of 300 men resulted over the next few days from their holding
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• Angus Dearden
  ...weather as warm, with both sides actively shelling each other. The day's casualties were 5 wounded in action.
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• Rudolf Eberhardt
  ...bombardment that accompanied the raid on 30 May caused over 100 Australian casualties, over 40 of whom were killed. Many of those killed during the raid were bur
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• John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM
  ...e attack. The members of this party. including the Officer, were all made casualties whilst advancing (with the exception of Cpl Ffoulkes) and rear communicatio ...ications during an attack. The officer in charge and all the party became casualties while advancing, but he went forward alone and established and maintained c
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• Herbert Fuhrmann
  ...he receiving end of a lot of heavy German bombardments, and suffered heavy casualties. Herbert was reported as Killed in Action on 8 Aug 1917.
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• John Wilfred Gargett
  ...over the next four days before they were relieved, they suffered some 300 casualties, including John.
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• Frederick Sidney Gladstone
  ...h was a shell wound to left thigh. Records for the day make no mention of casualties, while the entry for the next day records three men being wounded by shell
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• John Goffin
  ...support. Of them 1 Officer and 2 other ranks (one being John) also became casualties of the gas. Treated by the [[1st Field Ambulance]] and the [[2nd Australia
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• Edward (Ned) Gray
  ...ar Mouquet Farm on the night of 30 Aug / 1 Sep 1916. Edward was one of the casualties during the day when seven of his colleagues were KIA and 19 others, like hi
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• Rupert Gregg
  ...re then subjected to an incredibly heavy bombardment which caused some 300 casualties for the battalion alone. Rupert was one of these, being treated in turn by ...ceived a shell wound to his left arm. Rupert was one of a small number of casualties suffered by the battalion in their attack, with almost all resulting from e
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• William Hall
  ...chieved and held against strong enemy counter attacks, they suffered 5,013 casualties, Bill amongst them.
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• Raymond Harold Hanretty
  ...4 prisoners were captured who provided much useful information, and heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy. The cost to the Australians was 22 killed and
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• Thomas Percival (Percy) Hanretty
  ...tion, and then the 26th General Hospital in Étaples. The 28th Battalion's casualties numbered 91 wounded, 5 missing and 42 killed in action. Tom made a speedy r
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• Phillip (Harry) Harrison
  ...f reasons this turned out to not be possible, and the battalion took heavy casualties on a day of hard slog over terrible country under machine gun, artillery an
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• William Heath
  ...' ahead of the general attack on the enemies trench system that followed. Casualties for their battalion for the day were 49 Killed in action, 215 missing, and
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• Frederick James Howard
  ...nt out to search the ruins of Poziéres, and ran into opposition, and took casualties. ...The battalion's War Diary at the end of the battle recorded the following casualties: Killed 6 Officers and 62 Other Ranks; Wounded 11 Officers and 358 Other Ra
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• Leslie Charles Hutchinson
  ...nemy shelled the front line trenches, 'registering' them, and caused minor casualties - 1 Officer and 2 other ranks, one of whom was Les, who remained on duty, s ...r in the day enemy planes bombed and strafed the battalion without causing casualties, so it would appear that Leslie's death most likely happened early in the d
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• Gordon Weston Johanson
  ...f 1 other rank, and wounded 2 others. During the 2nd there were no further casualties as the battalion readied itself for an attack on enemy positions fronting t
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• Roy Walden King
  ...Germans, and by the night of the day that Roy was wounded, the battalion's casualties were 24 Killed, and 79 wounded with 4 missing in action.
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• Arthur Lewis
  ...s of bombing raids against what was known as Malt Trench. While they took casualties early, the attack finally floundered under heavy machine gun fire, and find
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• John Richard Lewis
  ...tions of rain and mud the attack failed and the battalion took substantial casualties - 59 killed, 169 wounded, and 50 missing. There is nothing in the war diary
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• Reginald Peter Lewis
  ...fire as they approached Biaches Wood and the high ground beside the river. Casualties were described by the battalion's War Diary to be "exceedingly light", in w
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• Robert Lightbody
  ...able to reform, and fight to recover it. In doing so they sustained heavy casualties, including Robert who received a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
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• William Mathews
  ...t them forced their withdrawal to the positions held by them earlier. The casualties were severe, with the battalion losing 523 men for the month, almost all of
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• Benjamin Arthur McEvoy
  ...ion with a severe wound to the right leg. The unit war diary records that casualties were fairly heavy, their line being bombarded on several occasions. Seen f
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• James Lawrence McKenna
  As with all other casualties, James injury was reported in the Australian press i.e. the Kalgoorlie Sun
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• William Moffat McLachlan MM
  ...ties were light in achieving the target, they later sustained a great many casualties (300+) holding on to their gains, primarily from both enemy and friendly ar ...ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27303934 |title=WAR CASUALTIES. |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |volume=XXXIII, |issue=4,758 |location=
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• Albert Tom Milton
  ...the south bank of the Somme River and cleared the outskirts of Mericourt. Casualties for the day were 3 KIA; 1 DOW; and 101 wounded, including Albert.
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• George Badham Milton
  ...eme pressure to take back much of the ground lost, despite suffering 1,010 casualties, including 300 taken POW. As George was not able to be accounted for, he w
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• Frederick William Wallace Moore
  ...achine gun fire for more than an hour left the trenches badly battered and casualties totaling 36 killed, 61 wounded and 6 missing, believed to have been buried
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• Cecil Herbert McKeown
  ...s the village when they were cut down by German machine guns, suffering 90 casualties. Things were relatively quiet the next day as the Germans moved large numbe
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• Patrick O'Flaherty
  ...n unsuccessful attempt to capture Turkish positions near Gaza. One of 345 casualties in the Camel Corps alone. With a bullet wound to both legs, Patrick had the
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• Herbert Frank O'Neill
  ...when 'D' Company was part of the first wave of attack that sustained some casualties during not only the attack, but more when they ran into the friendly barrag ...mentions heavy contact with the enemy on the 20th in Glencorse Wood, with casualties taken, and on the 21st their withdrawal from the front lines.
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• Frederick Oliver Pierce
  ...As part of the second phase of the attack the 44th suffered relatively few casualties, primarily from enemy artillery , but some from machine gun positions. Whi
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• George Scrivener
  ..."Considering the operation, our losses were remarkably light." Australian casualties numbered 5,013 for the day. As many were caused by artillery, and this was
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• 11th Field Ambulance
  ...perating Advanced Dressing Stations and running rest areas. The unit first casualties occurred while in the Le Bizet sector, when the enemy shelled the Advanced ..., Passchendaele and Flanders Ridge), the Somme and Villers Bretonneux. The casualties were numerous, and the bearers had a very strenuous task evacuating them fr
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• 10th Battalion
  The battalion continued operations until late September 1918. Casualties totalled 1,015 men killed and 2,136 wounded. In November 1918, members of t
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• Frederick William Scott
  ...tion was not serious, a few shrapnel shells and Rum jars being sent over. Casualties - 2 Other Ranks Killed - 8 Other Ranks wounded.</blockquote> Fred was one o
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• Henry Seddon
  ...the enemy's pillboxes difficult to overcome. However, the 43rd Battalion's casualties, which included Henry for a day's work were 37 killed in action, and 104 wo
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• Luke Siford
  ...midnight. they advanced in four waves on the enemy positions, taking heavy casualties from machine gun and artillery fire, compounded by the fact that their own
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• James Strachan
  ...ourt and Reincourt. A failure, due to lack of Tank and artillery support, casualties were very heavy, including James who received a bullet wound to his back.
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• 16th Battalion
  ...landing the 16th was thrown into the attack on Bloody Angle suffering many casualties. From May to August the battalion was heavily involved in establishing and
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• Arthur Swindlehurst MM
  ...ber to snipers and machine gun fire while they were digging in. Australian casualties for the day were 5,770 of whom Arthur was one.
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• William Renfrey Thomas
  ...cond battle for Gaza. A bigger disaster than the first attempt, the total casualties were more than 6,000 of whom 345 were members of the Camel Corps, including
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• Norman Sedrick Tonkin
  ...the battalion was in the front lines east of Ypres. The battalion's total casualties for that month were 15 Officers and 322 men. ...immediately as the first shells exploded, with the result that only a few casualties were inflicted. They were Privates Cox, Dinning, Gay, Saunders and Tonkin"'
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• Leslie Huon Truman
  ...nuing to fire on Australian positions for some time after. 11th Battalion casualties, which included Leslie, were 21 killed in action and 42 wounded.</blockquot
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• David Dickson Waddell
  ...es for protection from it. However, the battalion War Diary records three casualties resulting from the enemy bombardment and David was one of those.
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• William Paul (Layton) Walton
  ...lian barrage started, and they advanced behind the barrage taking about 80 casualties from machine gun fire from both flanks of the village before they reached i
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• Harold Watts
  ...position at Dead Man's Ridge on 2 May 1915. We took the position, but the casualties were very heavy. As far as the witness knows, this man's body has not been
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• Claude Algernon Wright
  ...ible and the troops that could were withdrawn to their earlier positions. Casualties for the day included 63 killed, 151 wounded, and 257 missing. Claude was o
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• Robert George Orrock
  ...d when the 28th Battalion was moving into the line near Bellicourt. Three casualties while the battalion was taking up its positions, 1 KIA and 2 x WIA.
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• Albert Ernest Osborne
  ...et day in the front line, with enemy artillery very quiet. Never the less, casualties for the day were 1 KIA and 1 WIA, with Albert seemingly the one classified
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• James Barber
  ...e. During this period an enemy machine gun caused some casualties. Further casualties to the first wave were caused by their own artillery when they advanced too
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• Alfred George McDermott
  ...ans suffered severe losses. The 107th Infantry Regiment suffered the worst casualties sustained in a single day by any U.S. regiment during the war. Rather than
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• William Edgar Rowe
  ...at Flers. The battalion's War Diary, mentions enemy shelling activity and casualties, but does not list William amongst them. His injury was probably caused by
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• William Savage
  ...dvanced towards their objectives at 5:50am, and quickly achieved them with casualties described in the 51st Battalion War Diary, as very slight.
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• Hobart Turner
  ...presumably by enemy shell fire which was described as having caused light casualties.
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• HMAT A59 Botanist
  ...don with general cargo. Her passengers were rescued by '' SS Arracan''. No casualties.
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• Leonard Butcher
  ...ttalion on this day were attacking to the left of Reincourt and took heavy casualties (162 either KIA or WIA).
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• 2nd Australian General Hospital
  ...n 1915. The staff were established at Mena House when, a few months later, casualties from Gallipoli made necessary the preparation of a second hospital at Ghezi ...alongside treated Australian wounded, they seldom received the Australian casualties, but received them from other Commonwealth nations.
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• 3rd Australian General Hospital
  ...s expanded to 1,000 beds as part of the preparation for the expected heavy casualties when the troops were to withdraw from Gallipoli.
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• 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station
  ...arely adequate to meet the situation before them. They found the number of casualties waiting to be treated so overwhelming that little more than first aid could ...apnel from artillery fire. In the first three days it treated around 2,100 casualties, working 20 hour days. Yet despite these relentless hardships, the unit dis
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• Frank Moore
  ...lery heavily shelled the railway embankment where the 11th Battalion was. Casualties included 1 Killed, and 14 wounded including Frank. Seen first by the [[3rd
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• Herbert Goodman
  ...ustralian attackers were driven back by heavy rifle and machine gun fire. Casualties were 59 Killed 168 wounded, and 50 missing. Herbert was one of the missing
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• 14th Australian General Hospital
  In addition to war casualties the hospital also treated men with a range of illnesses and diseases includ
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• 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital
  ...ar, arriving there on 27 Aug 1917. Here it received VD patients as well as casualties and general illnesses.
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• Jerusalem Memorial
  3,315 identified casualties from WW1 are housed in the cemetery.
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• Albert Squire
  ...osses were nine killed and 28 wounded, compared to many hundreds of German casualties. Sadly, one of the Australia KIA was Albert.
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• 4th Field Ambulance
  ...as). The Field Ambulance would have personnel deployed forward to retrieve casualties from the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) to the Field Ambulance - generally descr
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• 8th Australian General Hospital
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• Training Units in England
  ...rigade to include the 65th, 66th, 67th and 70th Battalions. However, heavy casualties in the fighting at Bullecourt in April and May, and at Messines in June cau
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• 48th Battalion
  ...gium, and on both occasion it was forced to withdraw after suffering heavy casualties due to poor planning and inadequate support. It then wintered in and out of
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• Walter Hayward
  ...ack on German positions near the windmill (Pozieres), suffering very heavy casualties. Walter was one of the few that survived this action, but on 5 Aug 1916 in
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• 1st Pioneer Battalion
  ...pture of Lihons and then the exploitation beyond Proyart, losing around 80 casualties during the month. The following month they followed up the drive through th
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• Daniel Malcolm Wann
  ...eir machine guns took heavy toll of the 11th Battalion, causing very heavy casualties. Daniel was one of these, receiving a bullet wound to his spine. Treated fi
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• Harold V Marshall
  ...ustralian positions were again subject to a very heavy bombardment causing casualties. Later that afternoon they were replaced in the line and returned to the re As there were a great many casualties this night, and the doctors were very busy, there were naturally a lot of m
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• Ernest Ball DCM
  ...he evening of 12/13 November, a working party had gone out to bury British casualties from a previous attack on the enemy positions. During that time one soldier
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• Edward Patrick Barker
  ...t them. The reason there is no certain date for his wounding is that many casualties lay on the field of battle for up to 2 days before their colleagues rescued
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• Victor Henry Marshall
  ...ecords simply list him as one of the 14 Officers and 613 Enlisted who were casualties on the 11th April resulting from the attack on the Hindenburg Line between
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• Walter Bell Blair
  ...landing they were embroiled in three days of fierce fighting, taking heavy casualties until they were relieved and gathered on the beach late on 28 Apr 1915.
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• David Edward Bromley
  ...as were attacks the following day. '''The names of the 'slight' number of casualties mentioned earlier cover three type written pages. Four Officers and 62 othe ...ly-Laurette on the banks of the Somme River. The Australians suffered 400 casualties while taking 325 German prisoners in addition to their unknown number of Ge
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• John McLeod Brown
  ...ing a 10th Battalion company each alternate night. It was reported that no casualties occurred during the battalion change over, but that by 30 Jun 19016 the bat
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• HS Maheno
  ...ualties from the Battle of Hill 60. Over the next three months she carried casualties from Gallipoli to Malta. Maheno arrived back in New Zealand on 1 January 1
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• Henry William Buckland
  ...Zonnebeke near Polygon Wood. During the action the Australians took heavy casualties, Henry amongst them, being wounded by shrapnel in the left leg and left han
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• James Willie Bush
  ...footnote to the days activity in the 28th Battalion's War Diary noted that casualties enroute had been 1 Other Rank killed, and 2 wounded (by shellfire). James
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• Leonard Frederick Bysh
  ...German barrage commenced at 3:00am, so the Australians had suffered heavy casualties before their barrage commenced and the men moved forward. It was soon afte
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• Ernest Camp
  ...rage of gas and high explosive artillery shells throughout the day causing casualties on a regular basis.
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• George Conway MID
  ...lery. Misconceived, it failed but fortunately there were only three minor casualties. George being one of them, receiving a gunshot wound to his right shoulder
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• George Rowland Benton
  ...r Zonnebeke. The battalion's War Diary reports nothing unusual in terms of casualties for the 12th of October, although the next day they had 1 less officer and
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• Francis Crowe
  ...eparing to go into the front lines at Mouquet Farm. There is no mention of casualties in the battalion's war diary or the history of the Battalion "For King and
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• Walter Edward Dalziell
  ...ouquet Farm. While they achieved their objective, it was not without heavy casualties and then, over the next two days they were on the receiving end of an extre
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• James Smith Dean
  ...ey pulled back to behind the Jordan River by 2 April having suffered 1,200 casualties, James having been wounded the first day of the battle with a gunshot wound
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• Francis Dyson
  ...trength was 16,000 compared to the Australian's force of 4,000, and German casualties were officially two for every Australian. Both sides had 300 men captured
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• Albert Ernest Elkington
  ...es. While the operation was a ''stunning success'' exchanging 1,000 allied casualties for 2,000 German prisoners and many more killed an wounded, Arthur was one
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• Percy Goodall
  ...hich the Australians suffered very heavy casualties. The 32nd Battalion's casualties alone numbered 71 Killed, 375 Wounded, and 219 men missing in action. Percy
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• Charles Gorringe
  ...was decided to use the Light Horsemen as Infantry support given the heavy casualties then being experienced at Gallipoli.
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• George Harris
  ...The battalion at the time were in the front line, receiving fairly heavy casualties due to heavy German shelling of their positions. George was appointed Lance ...in waves. A total of three attacks were attempted, with very heavy German casualties. The 16th Battalion lost nine killed and 28 wounded, Charles amongst the w
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• Walter Robert Hayes
  ...lles. The battalion suffered 718 casualties on the day, a third of all the casualties they suffered during the war, and 90 percent of its effective strength. Wal
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• Albert Helliwell
  ...ert Wood relieving the 43rd Battalion. The unit War Diary records two (2) casualties (wounded) that day due to shell fire.
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• George Alfred Hill
  ...an 4.2 inch artillery fired on the Brigade HQs. George being one of these casualties. Treated by the 48th Casualty Clearing Station, he was placed aboard an [[A
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• Edward Hobson
  ...the Hindenberg Line. A poorly planned adventure, they took extremely heavy casualties. Of the 17 Officers and 700 men who participated in the attack, only 3 Offi
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• Basil Kelley
  ...talion's carrying out an attack on enemy positions at Morlancourt. Despite casualties being described as light (less than 50 men from the 28th Battalion), Basil
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• Osborne King
  ...ed an attack on German positions in and around Lagnicourt. The battalion's casualties for the day included 4 Officers and 17 Other Ranks killed, primarily those
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• Samuel Thomas Lowth
  ...participated in the battle to capture Polygon Wood, and succeeded with few casualties until after they had commenced to dig in at their objective. Sam received a
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• Alfred Parker
  ...o the left, and the other to the right. Enemy machine gun fire caused some casualties as they approached the final objective, the enemy trenches atop the Wolfsbe
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• John Laidlaw Paterson
  ...countered very heavy German opposition that caused them to take very heavy casualties. Treated by the [[15th Field Ambulance]], he was passed back to the 61st Ca
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• John Arthur Patterson MM
  ...on before being relieved by the 41st Battalion at midnight on 1 Aug 1917. Casualties were 35 KIA, 182 WIA, and 4 Missing. John was wounded with a gunshot wound
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• Harry Pickard
  ...d as missing, Harry amongst them, during the month. All bar four of those casualties occurred on 29 Jul 1916.
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• Hector Louis Polain
  ...s all occupants were either killed or captured. The battalion suffered 245 casualties. Including Hector, 180 men were marked as missing in action. That he was de ...he Battle of Lagnicourt proves costly to the 11th Battalion, though German casualties are even higher." </blockquote>
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• Edwin Lawrence Reed
  ...was very successful, with light casualties. However, they later suffered casualties from snipers and artillery bombardment as they dug in at their objective .
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• Ernest William George Reed
  ...ld the ground gained and were forced back suffering the last of the 38,000 casualties associated with the 1917 advances east of Ypres. On the day, Ernest receiv
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• Herbert James Reed
  ...1917 Herbert, (along with his brother Ernest William) was amongst the 371 casualties from 621 members of the battalion that participated in the attack, in atroc
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• Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM
  ...uquet Farm near Poziéres on 3 Sep 1916. The battalion suffered very heavy casualties before it was relieved by the 1st Canadian Battalion on 5 Sep 1916, and it
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• William George Rosekelly
  ...nded in action while participating in an action at Polygon Wood. Battalion casualties were said to be light, but Bill sustained a bullet wound to the head. Seen
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• David Alexander Sayer
  ...ctive in the battle that became known as Polygon Wood. As they suffered no casualties on their later withdrawal, David's wound was caused during the advance or w ...h the 11th Battalion being relieved in the late afternoon. 11th Battalion casualties were 42 killed, 143 wounded and 7 missing.
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• Frank Leslie Sexton
  ...was probably wounded early in the day, and perhaps was amongst those early casualties. The attack was successful, with both the villages of Longatte and Noreuil
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• Archibald Shepherd
  ...hey suffered few casualties taking the position but suffered more than 300 casualties holding on to it. Treated by the 77th Field Ambulance, he was sent back to
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• Herbert Charles Smith
  ...d the enemy machine gun posts. As a consequence the battalion suffered 80 casualties before it reached the wire and many more at the wire. Herbert's records sim
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• John Donald Stalker
  ...articipated in battles at Poziéres (406 casualties) and Mouquet Farm (231 casualties); and held the line near Flers during the bitter winter of 1916-17. While o
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• William Lionel Stalker
  ...pimple salient. They entered our trenches but were only in 10 minutes. Our casualties 11 killed, 36 wounded, 4 missing. It is quite possible the 4 missing have
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• Samuel Simpson Thompson
  ...During this period they were receiving enemy artillery fire causing many casualties while waiting for the attack to commence. Given that Simpson's records have
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• Hubert Harris Thorp
  ...Pozières Ridge, before being withdrawn to reform after taking very heavy casualties.
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• Arthur John Verrall
  ...Sep 1917, in a battle known as Menin Road. The Australians suffered 5,013 casualties. The 28th Battalion was then withdrawn from the line and sent to Poperinge
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• Matthew Walsh
  ...le cover. Another stint in the front line late in the month saw only light casualties before they were withdrawn to Crepy. It was while they were in Crepy that
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• Peter Grant Watt
  ...8, however, the 11th Battalion's War Diary suggests that he was one of the casualties suffered as they came out of the lines and were hit by a stray artillery ro
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• James Arthur (Artie) Williams
  ...- 30% of the unit was held back as a nucleus to build around after taking casualties, however, the 16th Battalion participated in the following battle after Jam
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• James Thomson MM
  ...but were unable to hold any ground gained. The 51st Battalion suffered 250 casualties during the next few days and when withdrawn, the battalion numbered less th ...nal risk. It was entirely due to their gallantry and devotion to duty that casualties were cleared quickly and many lives saved.'<ref>London Gazette dated 4 Feb
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• 8th Field Ambulance
  ...Division. Many soldiers were killed in the process of trying to retrieve casualties from the battlefield. The field ambulance served throughout the remainder
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• Richard John Williams
  ...had dug themselves in, the ferocity of the bombardment was such that many casualties resulted from direct hits while many near misses buried the troops alive.
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• 51st Battalion
  ...ions. In less than three weeks the Battalion had suffered in excess of 650 casualties. The Battalion then shifted to the quieter section of the battlefield in Be ...Hindenberg Line. The attack was a success, but the Battalion suffered 239 casualties during the assault and subsequent defence of the village. The next major en
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• Albert John Harris
  ...bjectives, and before they were relieved on the night of 5th/6th Oct 1917. Casualties, including Albert's were caused by enemy shelling.
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• John Henry Wilkinson
  ...it is likely that this was when he became a casualty given the other later casualties were largely caused by German artillery. he was seen by the [[4th Field Amb
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• William Alfred Leaver MC MM
  ...rd for personal safety, going out after two enemy snipers who were causing casualties amongst our men, and accounted for them. This was done under heavy shell fi
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