ANZACs and other WWI Personnel
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Over 1250 local men and women served in World War One (WWI)[1]. The locals who served included:
- 17 local women who served as Nurses or Sisters[1] (see ANZAC Girls)
- 115 local ‘ANZACs’ – soldiers, who served in or were associated with the Gallipoli campaign[1].
Of the local men who served, 17 died as a result of the Gallipoli campaign and 83 as a result of later WWI campaigns. Quite a few men, who served in Gallipoli and were still fit for service, went on to serve in later campaigns. Some of those, like F J Scott, survived Galipolli but then died in a later campaign (this is why his name is sometimes included in Galipolli Honour lists).
The compiled lists of those who served and those who died are subject to variation depending on the boundaries used to define the local district, the criteria used to determine who is local (born locally, resided locally, enlisted locally or had local next of kin) and the information available at the time the list was compiled. As records have become more available, especially digitally, additional names have been added. For a comprehensive list with names, details and often photographs of all the local personnel who served see the “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website, created by researcher Beth Page.
The following sections will list the names of locals who died whilst serving in the Gallipoli campaign and other WWI campaigns, as commemorated on the pavers installed in the Remembrance Garden in Pioneer Park in 2015 – a century after the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli. The names are listed as written on the commemorative paver, followed by full name and other notes, such as if their name also appears on the Roll of Honour 1914-1918 or the Gawler South WWI Memorial. Additional personnel who died whilst serving are listed on the “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” website, which has been more recently updated.
“Gawler Anzac Veterans Who Gave All” (17 commemorative pavers)
ALLEN S T 7 Dec 1915 [ALLEN Sidney Torrington]
BAKER W A 28 Nov 1915 [BAKER William Albert]
BELL E C 19 May 1915 [BELL Eric Chalcroft – also Honour Roll]
BOWDEN J S 25 Apr 1915 [BOWDEN John Stirling – also Honour Roll]
BRUNS E O A 2 May 1915 [BRUNS Ernest Otto Alfred]
COCHCRANE A D 9 Dec 1915 [COCHCRANE Andrew Downie - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
FORREST C F 4 Aug 1915 [FORREST Christopher Frank]
GILBERT J 28 May 1915 [GILBERT Joseph - born Gawler, served with British Forces]
HOGBEN R H 2 May 1915 [HOGBEN Richard Hubert]
JAMES F 4 May 1915 [JAMES Frank – also Honour Roll]
MCLACHLAN R S 9 Aug 1915 [MCLACHLAN Roy Stevens]
OLDHAM E C Maj 25 Apr 1915 [OLDHAM Edward Castle]
REID F C 25 Apr 1915 [REID Frederick Charles]
SHEEDY J J 27 Apr 1915 [SHEEDY James John – also Honour Roll]
SHORT A E 8 Aug 1915 [sic][SHORT Arthur Gawler – also Honour Roll, son of James Short, 2 brothers also died WWI, see list below]
SMITH C C 25 Apr 1915 [SMITH Cyril Charles]
TURNBULL J S 6 Jul 1915 [TURNBULL John Sanderson – also Honour Roll]
A compilation including maps, photographs of the Gallipoli site, cemeteries and memorials for these local soldiers who died whilst serving in Gallipoli is available as a Powerpoint slideshow, compiled in August 2014 by Gawler RSL past-President E.W. Clarke and Webmaster Beth Page. Their efforts in compiling and sharing this resource are greatly appreciated. Please click here and follow the prompts to download it (the file is 78MB and will take a short time to download). The memorial for F C Reid is not specifically featured but his name is visible on the same 10th Battalion Lone Pine memorial panel as J J Sheedy.
“World War One Gawler Vets Who Gave All” (83 commemorative pavers)
ADAMS B [ADAMS Breally – also Honour Roll]
ADDIS C [ADDIS Clement Riggs - also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
ANGRAVE F [ANGRAVE Francis Gordon - also Gawler South Memorial]
BAKER H H [BAKER Henry Howard – also Honour Roll, brother of Baker Hilda Maud]
BERRYMAN S C [sic][BERRIMAN Clement Clifford ‘Cliff’ – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C L (next) who also died whilst serving WWI and Berriman (Cr) James Owen]
BERRYMAN C L [sic][BERRIMAN Claude Leslie – also Honour Roll (spelled correctly), brother of Berriman C C (previous) who also died whilst serving WWI and Berriman (Cr) James Owen]
BOOMER P C F [BOOMER Percy Charles Fernlie – also Honour Roll]
BOSLEY O B D [BOSLEY Oswald Bainem - also Honour Roll]
BUSBRIDGE R J [BUSBRIDGE Reginald James - also Honour Roll]
BUTTFIELD B V [BUTTFIELD Blinman Vincent - also Honour Roll, he was a chemist’s assistant for Mr J Letcher, chemist]
CASKEY J P [CASKEY John Percival – also Honour Roll & Gawler South Memorial]
CHENOWETH A H [CHENOWETH Arthur Henry - also Honour Roll]
CHILDS A [CHILDS Alfred Leonard - also Honour Roll]
CHURCHMAN N [CHURCHMAN Norman Horace – also Honour Roll – contemporary research indicates he actually survived WWI, discharged 5 Jul 1919 & survived until 1954]
COLLINS A H [Roll of Honour lists ‘A H Collins’ with a star [died] and ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) with no star, Gawler South WWI Memorial lists ‘A H Collin’ (no ‘s’) who served unto death. Gawler South memorial would be ‘COLLIN Allen Harold’, whose mother resided in Gawler South and also had two other sons who served in WWI, survived and are also listed on Gawler South Memorial. There was also, ‘COLLINS Alfred Henry’, who served and died in WWI, he was born in England and his next of kin were in England.]
COOMBE H H [COOMBE Henry Heywood – also Honour Roll, son of Coombe Ephraim Henry]
CRACKOW W F [likely same as ‘W F Drackow’ on Honour Roll, neither name is in WWI Nominal Rolls or “Gawler WWI Honour Roll” Website, possible they may refer to ‘DRECKOW Alfred Alwin’, born ‘Drackow’, (Alfred could have been abbreviated to ‘Fred’), whose mother and siblings were residing in Moore Street, Gawler in 1921, naming her residence ‘Orontes’ after the ship her son sailed on]
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