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Officers of the 12Th Battalion During WW1 Pictorial Honour Roll Officers of the 12th Battalion during WW1 Pictorial Honour Roll Lindisfarne RSL, Tasmania Compiled by Evan Evans In total there are 197 men named on the 12th Battalion Officers Pictorial Honour Roll (PHR), with 144 including a photo and 52 named without a photo. There are no details as to the mode that the 12th Battalion Officers PHR was subscribed to and manufactured. There are multiple copies of the board that have survived including: 1. Lindisfarne and 2. Burnie RSLs, and 3. Maryborough Military Museum, Qld). The board was compiled by each of the officers or officer’s families providing photos of the men. Officers for which a photo was not available are listed on the bottom of the Honour Roll. As such, officers from interstate are more likely to be only named. Cases where the officer died in service may have resulted in some families not being able to or being willing to provide a photo. Similarly, some officers may not have been included to provide their photos as a result of their WWI experiences. I presume that the board was paid for by subscription with multiple prints being made. Certainly, there would have been provided to the key supporting RSLA clubs and the senior commanding officers. I would expect that prints were also made available to at least some of the officers or their family. In the following pages I have provided the men’s photos and details on A3 sized pages so that they can be presented in the same order as on the PHR. The numbers on the board correspond to the numbers on the following pages. For some men I have highlighted their names in yellow are of particular interest due to their actions during WWI, Australian contributions after the WWI or both. I would recommend accessing the Virtual War Memorial Australia web site (VWMA.org.au) to find our more about men such as Major General Sir John Gellibrand KCB, DSO+Bar, PSC (co-founder of legacy) and Lieutenant Frank Marriott who served as a Tasmanian Parliamentarian despite being blinded in 1917. These are but two men with interesting and extraordinary stories. I am sure that many of the other men also have worthy stories that are awaiting to be told. 1. Burnie RSL: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/australian_monument/display/70100 2. Maryborough Military Museum, Qld: https://www.maryboroughmuseum.org/ Abbreviations: * = AAMC = Australian Army Medical Corps, En. Date enlisted, Dc. Date discharged, 2nd Lt = Second Lieutenant, Lt = Lieutenant, Capt = Captain, Maj = Major, Col = Colonel, Gen = General, KIA = Killed in Action, DoW = Died of Wounds DoD = Died of disease, VC = Victoria Cross, OBE = Order of the British Empire, DSO = Distinguished Service Order, MC = Military Cross, DCM = Distinguished Conduct Medal, MM = Military Medal, MiD = Mentioned in Dispatches. 1. Lt Edgar C Briggs 2. Lt Frank D 3. Lt Squire W Dobson, 4. Chap Rev William 5. Capt Victor R 6. Maj/Sir William WS 7. Capt Alexander P 8. Chap Rev Robert H 9. Capt Claude H 10. Capt Ivan Nello 11. Capt Gordon En. 8/06/1916, Nicholas, En. 28/08/1915, K Douglas MC Rattan,* Johnson* DSO, Murphy* MC, Richard, Stubbings MC, Holyman MC, Peters OBE, Dis 4/2/1920, En. 19/06/1916, Dis 13/9/1919, (T-Maj), En. 20/08/1914, MC,MiD En. 1/03/1917 Arch Decon En. 24/08/1914, En. 14/08/1914, En. 21/09/1915, served WWII, Dis. 19/9/1919, from From Hobart, Tas En. 9/07/1915, Dis, 13/3/1915, En. 14/07/1915, Dis 14/3/1919, En. 8/09/1914, Dis 30/5/1921, Dis. 8/7/1919, Dis 27/7/1919, From From Longford, Tas Devonport, Tas Dis 15/8/1919, From From Sheffield, Tas Dis 27/1/1920, From Hamilton, Qld Dis 1/12/1918, From Zeehan, Tas From Launceston, Tas Goodwood Pk, SA Queenstown, Tas From Toorak, Vic From Hobart, Tas 12. Lt John A 13. Lt Alfred H 14. Lt Harold M Sandy 15. Lt Kenrick T 16. Lt Leicester T 17. Capt Basil J 18. Lt Alan L 19. Lt William J Kelly, 20. Lt Louden HB 21. Lt William CB Daly 22. Capt Roger AL Campbell, Gordon, MC Payne, Butler, Andrew, Wardlaw MiD, En. 1/07/1915, Macleod, En. 31/01/1916, McElwee En. 9/09/1914, En. 31/07/1915, En. 6/01/1915, En. 28/07/1915, En. 17/07/1915, En. 1/07/1916, En. 20/05/1916, Dis. 5/5/1920, En. 9/05/1915, Dis. 7/6/1920, En. 24/08/1914, KIA 27/12/1917, Dis 14/10/1919, Dis. 10/11/1919, Dis. 27/9/1919, From Dis. 23/1/1920, Dis 29/6 Dis. 29/6/1920, From Kingswood, SA Dis. UK, 28/9/1919, From Prahan, Vic Dis. 13/12/1919, Messines, From From Brisbane, Qld From Sydney, NSW Devonport, Tas From Hobart, Tas Dis 29/6/1919, From Ringarooma, Tas From Hobart, Tas From Launceston, Tas E Fremantle, WA From Launceston, Tas 23. Lt Osmund J 24. Lt Bernard W 25. Lt John G 26. Lt Arnold T 27. Maj Frederick W 28. Capt Ivor S 29. Lt Norman 30. Lt Charles H 31. Lt Herbert C 32. Lt George F Gould 33. Lt Joseph H Will Roper, Mitchell, Simmons, Wertheimer, Page OBE (later Lt Col), Margetts, Ransom MM, Johnson, Orbell, MC, MM, En. 19/07/1915, En. 19/08/1914, En. 18/05/1916, En. 24/09/1914, En. 18/10/1917, En. 3/09/1914, En. 1/09/1914, En. 4/10/1917, En. 15/09/1914, En. 2/05/1915, En. 18/08/1914, Dis, 10/11/1917, Dis, 6/5/1920, DoW 19/9/1918, KIA 4/6/1918, From Dis 23/9/1920 KIA 24/7/1916, Dis 29/7/1919, Dis 3/10/1919, From Dis 31/3/1917, Dis 19/2/1920, Dis 24/11/1917, From Battery Point, From Launceston, Tas Hesbcourt, France Sandy Bay, Tas From ? Pozieres, From Scottsdale, Tas Battery Point, Tas From Launceston, Tas From Launceston, Tas From Launceston, Tas Tas From Launceston, Tas From Hobart, Tas 34. Capt Cyril 35. Lt Edward W L 36. Lt Col Ernest H 37. Lt Col Denis A 38. Maj Sidney Hawley 39. Lt Col John L 40. Lt Col Rupert A 41. Lt Col Leslie M 42. Lt Joseph J Keen 43. Lt George W 44. Lt Albert V Blakney, Lines, Smith CB, Lane, Hon Lt Col, Whitham CMG, DSO, Rafferty DSO, Mullen DSO, MiD, Turner DCM, MM, Chadwick, En. 17/08/1914, En. 1/05/1915, En. 29/08/1914, En. 28/08/1914, En. 9/08/1914, PSC, En. 28/08/1914, En. 28/08/1914 , En. 21/08/1914, En. 15/07/1915, En. 9/09/1916, Dis 4/7/18 from 52nd Dis 22/12/1919, Dis 18/8/1918, Ret 28/10/1919, Dis 14/11/1916, En. 26/08/1914, Dis 9/2/1920, Dis 4/6/1919, Dis 7/2/1919, Dis 9/11/1919, Dis 27/8/1920, Battalion, From Claremont, Tas invalided, From Lindisfarne, Tas From GSW 25/4/1915, Dis 20/3/1920, From Hobart, Tas From Burnie, Tas From Latrobe, Tas From Claremont, Tas From Cygnet, Tas From Hobart, Tas From Sandy Bay, Tas From Evandale, Tas From Melbourne, Vic 45. Lt Andrew D 46. Capt Arthur H 47. Capt Ralph D 48. Capt Harry E 49. Lt Leslie M Newton 50. Lt Col Lancelot F 51. Capt John 52. Capt Joseph P 53. Capt Edward Y 54. Capt (QM) Harry E 55. Capt Lawrence E Cooper, Appleby, Radford, Moncrieff Massey, MC, Clarke DSO, VD Northcott, Lalor, Butler, Spotswood MC, Burt, En. 5/04/1916, En. 19/05/1915, En. 23/08/1915, En. 28/08/1914, En. 25/08/1914, (Hon Col), later Lt Gen, Sir, En. 26/08/1914, En. 17/08/1914, En. 29/08/1914, En. 28/08/1914, Dis 6/1/1919, KIA 6/5/1917, Dis 14/8/1919, KIA 3/9/1916, Dis 26/3/1919, En. 17/08/1914, En. 24/08/1914, KIA 25/4/1915 Dis 23/7/1919, Dis 29/6/1919, Dis 20/12/1920, From St Leonards, Bullecourt, France From Goodwood, SA France, From Launceston, Tas KIA 25/4/1915 Dis 30/9/1916 (Anzac Gallipoli Landing, From Perth, WA From Sheffield, Tas From Kingswood, SA Tas From Hobart, Tas From Queenstown, Gallipoli, day wound), From Perth, WA Tas From Devonport, Tas From Hobart, Tas 56. Lt Mervyn W 57. Capt William R 58. Maj Herbert A 59. Maj Julius A 60. Lt Col Charles H 61. Col Edwin T Leane 62. Maj Gen Sir John 63. Maj John A 64. Capt Sydney R 65. Capt Thomas E 66. Lt Frank Marriott, Blacklow, Jorgenson, MacPherson MiD, William Kayser, Elliott CMG, DSO+Bar, CBE, MiD, Gellibrand KCB, Foster MiD, Houghton DSO, MC, Weavers, En. 4/10/1915, En. 23/08/1915, En. 28/08/1914, En. 28/08/1914, En. 28/08/1914, VD, Chevalier, En. 14/09/1914, DSO+Bar, PSC, En. 28/08/1914, MiD, En. 28/08/1914, Dis 25/7/1917 KIA 11/8/1918, Dis 5/9/1919 , Died 24/12/1918, KIA 16/2/1917 En. 24/08/1914, Dis 8/11/1919, From En. 20/08/1914, KIA 23/8/1918 En. 28/08/1914, Dis 24/4/1917 Wounded eyes, From Bagdad, Tas From Adelaide, SA Suicide at sea, Glencourt Abbey, Dis 17/6/1919, Burwood, NSW Ret 6/5/1919, Square Wood, Dis 4/10/1919, Wounded Gallipoli, From Wynyard, Tas From Hobart, Tas France, From Port From Hobart, Tas From Risdon, Tas Chinolles, Fr., From From Hobart, Tas From West Hobart, Tas Adelaide, SA Campbell Town, Tas 67.
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