LEST WE FORGET WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALS 12TH AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION There is no Memorial dedicated to Soldiers of the 12th Battalion other than the alphabetical list of names inscribed on the marble tablets located in the Undercroft of the WA State War Memorial in Kings Park, Perth. This document provides the Roll of Honour in chronological order and includes Soldiers enlisted from outside Western Australia whose names may not have been included on the State Memorial and whose names are shown in blue. About half the Soldiers of the Battalion were recruited from Tasmania and about a quarter each from South Australia and Western Australia. A number of Soldiers recruited in Queensland for the 26th Battalion were also transferred to the 12th Battalion during the course of the War. The initial Western Australian Contingent, G and H Companies, which had received their early training with the 11th Battalion at Blackboy Hill near Perth, joined the 12th Battalion at Mena Camp, near Cairo, Egypt, in mid-December 1914. The senior appointments in G Company were Company Commander Captain Joseph Peter Lalor (KIA: 25Apr15), Subalterns Lieutenant Joseph Lionel Booth (Wounds: 1May15) and Second Lieutenant John Ankers Evans (Wounded, Dis: 5May17), Colour Sergeant John Philpott Castle 791 (Dis: 28Jul15 (to a British Army Commission)) and Sergeants John Allen 770 (Wounded, Dis: 2Jun16), John Anthony Williams (KIA: 7Aug15), William Percy Nevett 851 (KIA: 2May15) and Alfred Edward Churchus 795 (Wounded, Dis: 16Feb16). The senior appointments in H Company were Company Commander Captain Edwin Thomas Leane (Dis: 18Jul19), Subalterns Lieutenant Edward Yeoland Butler (Wounds, Dis: 23Jul19) and Second Lieutenant Alan Stewart Vowles (Dis: 12Dec18), and Sergeants T C Ross (name unable to be further identified), H Thomas (name unable to be further identified), William Hunter Karn 939 (Wounded, Dis: 22May17) and Alfred Love (Wounded: Dis: 5Jul17). Places of Association from the Australian War Memorial (AWM) Roll of Honour are shown. This document can be searched by text. Further biographical and Service information for each Soldier may be found on the National Archives of Australia, the AWM and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Websites. 12TH BATTALION Suvla: 6-21 August 1915 Poelcappelle: 9 October1917 BATTLE HONOURS Passchendaele: 12 October 1917 France and Flanders: 19 March Egypt 1915-16: no dates 1916 – 11 November 1918 Lys: 9-29 April 1918 assigned Somme 1916 ’18: 1 July 1916 – Hazebrouck: 12-15 April 1918 3 September 1918 Amiens: 8-11August 1918 Gallipoli 1915: no dates Pozieres: 23 July 1916 – 3 Albert 1918: 21-23 August 1918 assigned September 1916 Hindenburg Line: no dates ANZAC: 25 April – 30 June assigned 1915 Bullecourt: 3-17 May 1917 Epehy: 18 September 1918 Landing at ANZAC: 25-26 April Ypres: 31 July – 10 November 1915 1917 Defence of ANZAC: 8 May – 30 Menin Road: 20-25 September June 1915 1917 Sari-Bair-Lone Pine: 6-10 Polygon Wood: 26 September August 1915 1917 – 3 October 1917 Broodseinde: 4 October 1917 LEST WE FORGET WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALS TH 12 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION 12TH BATTALION BRADLEY Jack Keith 289 KIA GURR Alfred Edward 108 KIA ROLL OF HONOUR (19) Launceston TAS Launceston TAS BRIGGS Francis 778 KIA East 1915 Beverley WA HADLEY Samuel William 924 BROWN Michael 776 KIA KIA (22) Bunbury WA Fremantle WA HARRISON Henry Christopher Egypt 1915-16: no dates 48 KIA Devonport TAS assigned CAMERON William Ernest 316 HARVEY Percy Robert 1163 aka WILLIAM John Robert KIA (23) Darkan WA BISHOP Herbert 656 Illness: KIA (39) Pontville TAS HAWKINS Leonard 148 KIA 22Jan15 Adelaide SA CAMPBELL Alexander 100 Hobart TAS PARKER Allan Wilfred 402 KIA (19) Bellerive TAS HIGGS John 108 KIA (45) Illness (Pneumonia): CARRINGTON Frederick Adelaide SA 11Feb15 (24) Fingal TAS Deacon 196 KIA (21) HOLDSWORTH Edwin 819 CARLSON Douglas 221 Illness Launceston TAS KIA (28) Brookton WA (Pneumonia): 24mar15 CARTER John 713 KIA (29) Launceston TAS Bowden SA JARVIS Richard George 161 DANIELS Richard Henry 1512 CHALLENGER Arthur William KIA (21) New Norfolk TAS Illness: 2Apr15 St Helens 890 KIA (28) Subiaco WA JARVIS Tasman 79 KIA (34) TAS CLARKE Lancelot Fox KIA Campania TAS HOPE Angus James 1531 (57) Melbourne VIC JOHNSON Andrew Nathaniel Illness (Meningitis): 3Apr15 Commanding Officer 453 KIA (28) Waratah TAS (21) Smithton TAS CRANE Wilfred John 431 KIA EVANS Gilbert Roy 1519 (24) Queenstown TAS KEARNEY Ernest 571 KIA Illness: 23Apr15 Macquarie Kapunda SA Plains TAS DUNN Thomas 805 KIA KIDSON Edric Doyle 828 KIA Subiaco WA (22) South Perth WA Gallipoli 1915: no dates KNOWLES Arthur Willie 101 assigned EGAN Alfred Edward 709 KIA aka CLARK Charles KIA Colac VIC (33) Sydney NSW ANZAC: 25 April – 30 June EVANS Henry 383 KIA (20) 1915 Westbury TAS LALOR Joseph Peter KIA (30) EWERT Ewen Charles 1160 Perth WA Landing at ANZAC: 25-26 KIA (24) Torbay WA LAVELLE Anthony 1165 KIA April 1915 FLEMING Edward Richard 438 Northam WA KIA (19) Launceston TAS LONERGRAN Patrick Francis 25 April 1915 FORBES Finlay 998 KIA (24) 463 KIA Zeehan TAS Pingelly WA LOWE Leslie 248 KIA Lilydale ADAMS Arthur John 401 KIA FRENCH Vivian Ambrose 325 TAS North Hobart TAS KIA Hagley TAS LYNCH Harry 1223 KIA Hobart TAS BANCROFT William 775 KIA GILLIES James 419 KIA St (22) Perth WA Marys TAS MAJOR Arthur 947 KIA (23) BARNETT Alexander 884 KIA GLASGOW Colin 312 KIA Albany WA Jarrahdale WA Burnie TAS MANNING George William BOWMAN Percy Algernon St GRIFFIN Edward 814 KIA 1226 KIA Launceston TAS George 639 KIA (26) Wialkutting WA Melbourne VIC Page 2 of 29 LEST WE FORGET WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALS TH 12 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION McBAIN John Thompson 261 STOTT Thomas Sydney 321 KIA (21) Frankford TAS KIA (20) Wesley Vale TAS 28 April 1915 McKAY John 692 KIA STUART Gordon Duke 706 Adelaide SA KIA (24) Mitcham SA BRIGGS Guy Alfred 180 KIA McLEAN Alex 848 KIA SUMMERSBEE Austin Philip (20) Longford TAS Carnamah WA 968 KIA Perth WA MANSOM William Edward 541 MILLER John William 1227 SWIFT Thomas William West KIA (29) Port Pirie SA KIA (27) Hobart TAS 1242 KIA (21) Sandy Bay RYAN Mitchell 1427 aka MOAR William Douglas 257 TAS RYAN Michael Joseph KIA KIA Launceston TAS (39) Perth WA MOULAND Edgar 651 KIA TILBEE Walter Joseph 983 KIA (27) Adelaide SA (18) Midland Junction WA 1 May 1915 MUNRO Gordon Albert KIA Kilkenny SA WILLIAMS Humphrey 1121 BOOTH John Lionel Calvert KIA Adelaide SA Wounds Gnowangerup WA OAKLEY William Henry 356 WOODBERRY Max Llewellyn SMITH Tasman 354 Wounds KIA (20) Waratah TAS 1253 KIA (21) Deloraine (23) Devonport East TAS TAS WILLIAMS John Joseph PALFREYMAN John Wilson WRIGHT George Clifton 337 Hamford 511 Wounds (26) 476 KIA Crossley VIC KIA Western Junction TAS Ballarat VIC PATTERSON Penistan James KIA (20) Swan Hill VIC 26 April 1915 2 May 1915 QUAMBY John Thomas 347 COPPINS William Thomas BLACKETT Howard 369 KIA KIA Hobart TAS Angus Horace Valentine 667 (26) Irishtown TAS Wounds (25) Walkerville SA BLAKE Ernest Samuel 326 KIA RANKIN John Edward KIRK Eric 114 Wounds Hobart (19) Westbury TAS Alexander 633 KIA (39) TAS CARLAND Leslie Thomas 320 Unley SA MARSHALL John Manuel 948 KIA (20) Haddon VIC RIGBYE Percy 481 KIA (23) Wounds Midland Junction DAVIS Eric James Victor 1049 Zeehan TAS WA KIA Hobart TAS ROBERTSON Leslie Edward MARTINS Arthur Joshua 835 DENNIS Roderick George 433 270 KIA (28) Spalford TAS Wounds (26) Bridgetown KIA (28) Perth TAS ROOKE Charles Keith Jago 64 WA FRASER Henry Victor Roy 412 KIA Brighton TAS TAYLOR Barrett Leach 370 KIA (23) Queenstown TAS Wounds Exeter TAS GENT Percy Lionel 1162 KIA SAYER George Gordon 171 (23) Trayning WA KIA (26) Middleton TAS 27 April 1915 GIBSON Arthur Gordon 230 SCOTT Henry Thomas 173 KIA KIA (23) Hobart TAS (20) Hobart TAS ANDERSON Arthur Leslie 152 GOULD Bruce 1008 KIA (26) SHILLITO Donald Robert 1175 Wounds Bagdad TAS Scottsdale TAS KIA Perth WA CROSS Sydney Robert 1011 HUGHES Arthur Walker Joseph SMITH Edward Thomas 331 Wounds Cygnet TAS 823 KIA (36) Kalgoorlie WA KIA Nile TAS MARTINI Ernest Frank 574 McLEOD Angus 716 KIA STEVENS William Henry 345 Wounds Pontville TAS Adelaide SA KIA Longford TAS WHALEY Arthur 875 Wounds MITCHELL Harold 735 KIA (29) Gwalia WA (22) Mitcham SA Page 3 of 29 LEST WE FORGET WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALS TH 12 AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY BATTALION MORRIS George 1115 KIA WILLIAMS Anthony George Broken Hill NSW Herbert 1009 Wounds ALLISON Frank Valentine 181 NEVETT William Percy 851 Queenstown TAS Illness (27) Launceston TAS KIA (26) Day Dawn WA NICHOLL William Hamilton 16 May 1915 1 June 1915 954 KIA Mount Lawley WA SEAGER Leonard 973 KIA HEDLEY Charles 670 Wounds BOYCE Harold Paul 1704 Perth WA Morphettville SA Wounds Oaklands Park SA SLOANE William Henry 489 GORMAN Thomas Ernest KIA (20) Nook TAS 17 May 1915 Tasman 122 KIA (19) STANISTREET Andrew 1022 Ridgeway TAS KIA (21) Helena Vale WA MICHIE William 837 Wounds STEPHENS Robert 16 KIA (26) Perth WA 5 June 1915 Hobart TAS VISTARINI Hector 507 KIA 19 May 1915 BUCKPITT George Kenny 99 Brighton TAS Wounds Hobart TAS HANCOX John 300 KIA 927) 3 May 1916 Ridgley TAS 9 June 1915 HEAWOOD James Charles JERRETT Reginald 4 Wounds 1217 KIA Ouse TAS MARA Walter Henry 628 KIA (28) Portland VIC Jamestown SA MOORE Frederick William 165 20 May 1915 Wounds Hobart TAS 11 June 1915 BYRNE William 1015 KIA 4 May 1915 Perth WA ARBUCKLE Beresford 773 HOARE William Cunningham Wounds (23) Kalgoorlie WA JOHNSON Amos Samuel 1538 932 Wounds Perth WA FOREMAN Samuel John 1713 Illness (Pneumonia) SMITH Harold Consort 518 Wounds Northam WA