Short Stories
BLEECHMORE, Major. Clive DSO – 9th Light Horse Regiment
Rank – Major Division – 9th Lighthorse Enlisted – 9/10/1914 Discharged – 01/11/1919 Date of Death – 05/11/1981 Age at Death – 89 Burial Location – Crematorium Main Path D Honour/Award – Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Clive Bleechmore was born 4th June 1892 at St Olive’s Norwood London. He was the only child of…
PARKER , Pte. Samuel Stanley Moore – 582 – 11th Battalion AIF
Service No. 582 – 11th Battalion Enlisted- 19/08/1914 Discharged- 17/02/1919 Died- 3/07/1979 Aged- 91 Years Buried Bunbury Lawn Cemetery B- 234 “Stan” Parker was born at Albert Park, Victoria on 23 September 1890, and unfortunately, his father died when Stan was only 6 weeks of age. His Mother re-married , and as Stan did not…
JOHNSON, Cpl. Frederick Henry Allan- 21997-7th Field Artillery Brigade
Fred Johnson was born Abbotsford, Victoria on October 22nd, 1897. Two years later he moved with his parents to Perth. From 1903 he attended Perth Boys Central School. In 1910, Fred won a scholarship to Perth Modern School, which he attended until 1914. In 1915, he became a trainee teacher at Thomas Street Senior State…
STANLEY, ER/Sgt. Thomas Brooke DCM – 981 – 10th Light Horse Regiment
AIF Service No. 981, Sergeant, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted – 09/01/1915, Discharged – 12/04/1920, Date of Death – 20/10/1969, Age at Death – 77 years, Burial Location – Bunbury Cemetery (Anglican B278) Thomas Brooke Stanley was born at Stocksbridge, in Sheffield, England on 12 May 1892 as the first and only child of Arthur and…
ROSE, Cpl. Thomas Hayward MM – 939 – 11th Battalion AIF
Thomas Hayward Rose was born on 16 October, 1888 in Bunbury, Western Australia, being one of 4 boys and 3 girls of Robert Henry ROSE and Maria ROSE ( nee Hayward ). He attended Primary Schooling at Parkfield Australind, Brunswick and Bunbury prior to transferring to Hale School in Perth for his Secondary education. In…
CLARKE, Lieut. Raymond Arthur MC – 878 – 11th Battalion AIF
Ray CLARKE was born at Bunbury, W.A on 18 July, 1889, being the sixth born in a family of ten children ( he had five brothers and 4 sisters ). Ray’s father, Ephraim Mayo Clarke was a Farmer and a Merchant who became the first elected Mayor of Bunbury, and subsequently served as the local…