Accession Number | P09077.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | France: Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Buissy, France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Bussy |
Date made | 1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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A wooden grave marker erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Queant Road ...
A wooden grave marker erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France. The two metal tags on the top vertical post read: "C.W.G.C./ Special Cross" . The wooden board carries the heading "Buried in this cemetery actual graves unknown" and names 28 Australian soldiers killed in action in France between March and May 1917, and their date of death. Left column, from the top: 5843 Private (Pte) Walter Glenister, 27th Battalion, 5 May 1917; 2717 Pte John McGillicuddy Noonan, 52nd Battalion, 12 April 1917, 2783 Pte Michael James Fox, 52nd Battalion, 12 April 1917; 899 Pte Ross Patterson, 13th Battalion, 11 April 1917; 4013 Pte Albert Joseph Tyler, 23rd Battalion, 3 May 1917; 14549 Sapper George Collis, 7th Field Company Engineers, 7 May 1917; 1804 Lance Corporal Lawrence Plant, 58th Battalion, 12 May 1917.
Second column, from the top: 652 Pte Hubert Clement Clues, 16th Battalion, 11 April 1917; 9024 Pte Herbert Selby King, 6th Field Ambulance, 4 May 1917; 9006 Pte Eugene John Connolly, 5th Field Ambulance, 4 May 1917; 2638 Pte Ernest George Casey, 55th Battalion, 14 May 1917; 15794 Pte Cyril Everard Martin, 14th Field Ambulance, 5 May 1917; 2369 Pte James Foster Fraser, 57th Battalion, 13 May 1917;
Third column, from the top: 2424 Pte Clyde Hollingsworth, 55th Battalion, 11 May 1917; 12903 Gunner Claude Richardson, 2nd Divisional Trench Mortar Battery, 3 May 1917; 4768 Pte Edward John Kirwan, 28th Battalion, 3 May 1917; 4454 Pte Richard Johnson, 19th Battalion, 4 May 1917; 4219 Pte Thomas Savage, 25th Battalion, 8 May 1917; 3094 Pte Henry William James Fleming, 4th Battalion, 6 May 1917.
Fourth column, from the top: 6057 Pte Alexander Roy Mackay, 2nd Batttalion, 5 May 1917; 4503 Pte Sydney Marsh, 25th Battalion, 3-4 May 1917; 6306 Pte James Savage, 1st Battalion, 5-8 May 1917; 15580 Pte George William Swett, 6th Field Ambulance, 21-22 April 1917; 14581 Pte Charles Henry Thorn, 6th Field Ambulance, 21-22 April 1917; 16128 Joseph William Elms, 6th Field Ambulance, 21-22 April 1917.
Lower vertical post, from the top: 5889 Pte Arthur Charles Tepper, 23rd Battalion, 23 April 1917; 6039 Pte James Hogan, 3rd Battalion, 3 May 1917; 245 Corporal Cyril White, 27th Battalion, 26 March 1917.
Related information
Conflicts
Events
Units
- 13th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 14th Australian Field Ambulance
- 16th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 19th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 1st Australian Infantry Battalion
- 23rd Australian Infantry Battalion
- 25th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 27th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 28th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion
- 2nd Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery
- 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion
- 4th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion
- 55th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 57th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 58th Australian Infantry Battalion
- 5th Australian Field Ambulance
- 6th Australian Field Ambulance
- 7th Field Company, Australian Engineers
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Subjects
People
- Hogan, James
- King, Herbert Selby
- Kirwan, Edward John
- Johnson, Richard
- Marsh, Sydney
- Mackay, Alexander Roy
- Martin, Cyril Everard
- Plant, Lawrence
- Patterson, Ross
- Noonan, John McGillicuddy
- Savage, James
- Savage, Thomas
- Swett, George William
- Tepper, Arthur Charles
- Casey, Ernest George
- Elms, Joseph William
- Connolly, Eugene John
- Collis, George
- Glenister, Walter
- Fox, Michael James
- Fraser, James Foster
- Fleming, Henry William James
- Thorn, Charles Henry
- White, Cyril
- Hollingsworth, Clyde
- Tyler, Albert Joseph