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WW1 Bio Part 1 WORLD WAR ONE RETURNED SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN OF GIPPSLAND MEMORIAL PARK TRARALGON AWTY, Henry Joseph GRAHAM, Archie James McFARLANE, George Silvester BEATON, Donald Angus GRANT, Richard Herbert McFARLANE, Peter Bruce BIRCH, Edward Ormond HACKETT, William Edward McKENNEY, Bertram Jacob BRERETON, Alfred Thomas HADLEY, Amos Percy MITCHELL, Herbert BUNKER, Horace Edgar HALL, Stanley Dawson MORGAN, Horace Hagger BURTON, David Robert HAM, Ernest MORLEY, Charles Victor CAMPBELL, Dugald McLeod HAYES, John James MORLEY, George Thomas CAMPBELL, John Montgomery HAYHOE, George James NEAVE, Gilbert James CHRISTENSEN, Walter HOBAN, Thomas Henry OLIVER, George CLARKE, William Hugh JOHNSON, Albert Arthur PAULET, William Henry CLEAVER, Gordon Herbert JOHNSON, David William POLLARD, Phillip CLIFFORD, Herbert George JONES, Albert PRYDE, Alan James COATES, Bert Kempson JONES, Charles Horace RADFORD, Stanley COOK, David Alexander JONSTON, Harry Hamilton REGAN, David Sydney COOK, James KING, Herbert Ernest RICE, William COUCH, Clyde George KING, Walter Benstead SEBIRE, Percy Alfred COUCH, William Joseph KING, Walter Macintosh SIMMONS, Percy COULSON, Cecil Thomas LAMBERT, Bert Levy SMITH, Charles Edward COUPER, James Ireland LANCASTER, Alexander Henry SOUTH, Creighton Mortimer CRABTREE, Edgar Wilfred LAY, Stanley STEVENS, John CURRAN, Arthur Ernest LEVISTON, Henry William TANNER, Noble Johnson CURRAN, John LINDSAY, John Percy TAYLOR, Henry Clive DARGIE, James LINDSAY, Joseph Herbert TAYLOR, Leslie Stewart DAVIDSON, Leslie Claude MacCUBBIN, David Grant THOMPSON, John Thomas DEARMAN, Patrick Michael MacCUBBIN, Walter THOMSON, James Peter DICKENSON, John Edward MACFARLANE, Marshall Robert TONER, John Daniel DRANE, George MAPLESON, Frederick Ralph TREWIN, William Frederick DUNBAR, Alexander MARKS, Stanley Richard WILLIAMS, Frederick William DUNBAR, Peter Allan Hugh MAYZE, Thomas Henry WILSON, Adam GILBERT, Allan Gordon McCARTHY, Ellen May WILSON, Albert James GRAHAM, Alfred Richard McDONALD, Arvon Griffiths WOOD, Sydney Edward Biographies of Service People in Publication Order Biographies of Service People in Publication Order WW1 Returned Servicemen and Women who have been buried at Gippsland Memorial Park, Traralgon, or memorialised on graves of family members in this cemetery, have been re- searched for this project as fully as the researchers were able, using these resources:- * The AIF Project: https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/search * Commonwealth War Graves: http://www.cwgc.org The researchers were - * Search for War Graves: http://www.dva.gov.au * National Digitised Newspapers: http://trove.nla.gov.au * Discovering Anzacs: http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au Carolyn and Barry Roscholler * National Archives: http://www.naa.gov.au/ Carol Campbell * Australian War Memorial: https://www.awm.gov.au Paul Burgess * World War 1 Nurses: http://ww1nurses.gravesecrets.net Linda Barraclough * WW1 Ships: http://alh-research.tripod.com Jenifer Whitwam * Ancestry: www.ancestry.com (Electoral Rolls) and GMP Staff * Medals: http://www.defence.gov.au Compiled by Jenifer Whitwam (2018) * Traralgon and District Historical Society: www.traralgonhistory.asn.au * Mid-Gippsland Family History Soc Inc: home.vicnet.net.au/~mgfhs * RSL Virtual War Memorial: https://vwma.org.au/ * Gippsland Memorial Park Staff: http://www.gippslandmemorialpark.com * Elizabeth McDonald: “Traralgon’s ANZACS” “Traralgon World War One: They Did Their Bit” Published in conjunction with the * Kim Phillips: “The Spirits of Gippsland” Centenary Celebrations of Armistice Day * Gippsland Heritage Journal No 16 marking the end of WW1 1918 - 2018 * RSL Traralgon Archivist—Mick Lewis at Gippsland Memorial Park, Traralgon * Families and acquaintances of the Servicemen and Women’s included. on 11 November 2018 * Members of the community Publication was supported by the Anzac Centenary Community Grant Program - State Government of Victoria Awty, Henry Joseph Service number 2599 Henry was born on 19 May 1889 in Buln Buln, Victoria, the fifth child of Joseph Alexander and Isabella Emily Awty (nee Pickup), who farmed at Neerim South. He was known as Harry to his friends and family. The siblings were Thomas Edward (1876), Edith (1878-79), Ethel (1879), Emily (1886), Florence (1891), Charles (1893), Mary Elizabeth (1895), George (1898) and Arthur Cecil (1901). HMAT A9 Stropshire Enlisted 17 May 1915 in Melbourne as a 26 year old Private in the 58th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement Embarked 25 September 1916 from Melbourne on the HMAT A9 Stropshire Returned home He embarked from England on the 18 December 1919 on board the HT Konigin Luise, disembarked in Melbourne on the 4 February 1920 and was discharged on the 20 March 1920. Occupation Timber Merchant Religion Church of England When he enlisted, Henry was married and was living with his wife in Traralgon where he worked as a Timber Merchant. He married Gertrude Annie Awty (nee Dedman) in 1916 and had a daughter, Kathleen, born in 1917 while he was overseas. When he embarked, Gertrude moved back to Neerim South. When Henry returned home he was living in Neerim East and was working as a teamster. Kathleen passed away in 1929 at Clifton Hill. Gertrude was then living at Neerim South and from 1934 seemed to be in New South Wales. In WW1 he disembarked at Plymouth on the 11 November 1916 where he started some train- ing. He was admitted to hospital at Fovant suffering from bronchitis on the 30 January 1917. He went to France on the 20 March 1917 but he was wounded on the 26 March. He was sent to England on the 17 April 1917 and admitted to hospital in Reading on the 19 April with gunshot wounds in his arm and leg. Early in July he was transferred to the Auxiliary Hospital in Harefield from where he was granted a couple of weeks furlough. After furlough he presented to the 3rd Command Depot at Hurdcott but was then transferred to the Brigade Hospital at Hurdcott, as he was suffering from neuritis followed by influenza. In 1931 Henry was listed on the Electoral Rolls as a driver living in Carlton, without any family; in 1934 in Kinglake as labourer; in 1936 to 1942 back in Drouin and living with a sibling, Emily Isobel. There he was still working as a labourer. Henry’s brother, George enlisted in Neerim as an 18 year old farmer, born in Buln Buln in 1916. He served with the 23rd Battalion and returned home on the 31 March 1919. Henry then enlisted in WW2 and his Next of Kin on the WW2 enrolment was listed as Annie Awty. He was discharged after WW2 on the 17 January 1947. He was a Signalman in the Signals 3 Lines of Communication Area. Henry Joseph Awty spent his time in retirement living at Eagle Point. He died in Bairnsdale on the 29 July 1975 and is buried at Gippsland Memorial Park, Traralgon. On his grave there is a Commonwealth War Grave insignia and his WW2 number but no refer- ence to WW1. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal for his WW1 service. L2-N022 Henry and George Awty Beaton, Donald Angus Service Number 4937 Donald was born on the 28 June 1893 at Traralgon, Victoria. He was the third child of Donald and Susannah Beaton (nee Braden). The other children were Louisa (1899), Rubina (1890), Peter (1896), John (1898), Malcolm (1901), Arthur (1903), Alice (1905), Thomas (1907), George (1910), and Jessie and Annie (1913). Enlisted 16 November 1915 as a 22 year old HMAT A70 Ballarat Private in the 12th Battalion, 15th Reinforcements Embarked 18 February 1916 from Melbourne on board the HMAT A70 Ballarat Returned home He returned to Australia on board the HT Persic leaving on the 13 July 1919, disembarked in Melbourne on the 29 August 1919 and was discharged on the 28 October 1919. Occupation Farmer Religion Presbyterian Donald married Lilly Rhodes in 1916 and his Next of Kin on his papers was changed to her. He proceeded overseas to Egypt, disembarking on the 22 March 1916. On the 17 April 1916 he was attached for duty with Headquarters Police at Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt. Sometime later he proceeded to England and on the 18 August 1916 he went to France and was Taken on Strength of the 12th Battalion on the 8 September 1916. Donald was admitted to hospital on the 30 September 1916 suffering from mumps. He rejoined his unit on the 6 October. On the 20 October 1916 he was again admitted to hospital suffering from debility and did not rejoin his unit until the 17 November 1916. He was Wounded in Action on the 25 February 1917 – gunshot wound to his hand and was admitted to the 1st Field Ambulance and then to the 45th Casualty Clearing Station on the same day. On the 27 February he was transferred to the 7th Canadian General Hospital and discharged to a Convalescent Depot on the 9 March 1917. He rejoined his unit on the 12 April 1917. He was reported Missing in Action on the 15 April 1917. This was probably during the German attack at Lagnicourt, France. On the 8 August 1917 an entry was made in his service record stating: “Delete entry missing and in lieu read Prisoner of War Germany, captured Pronville 15/4/17, interned at Dulmen and was wounded in hand.” Donald was repatriated from Germany to England on the 9 December 1918 and arrived in London on the 12 December prior to returning home. He returned home to Upper Traralgon Creek, where he was a farmer, in late August 1919. He and Lilly have the names of two children, Wallace and Wilma, on their memorial. He lived in Broadford from 1927-1943 where he worked at the Mill and returned to farming at Jeeralang North. After 1954 he moved to Gordon St, Traralgon, while he worked as a mill hand. He died on 30 June 1973 at Traralgon. Lilly died in 1966 and both are buried at Gippsland Memorial Park, Traralgon. Donald was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal in WW1.
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