Private William John Henry was born in Perth on the 11th August 1890 to parents Patrick Henry and mother Mary Henry, and lived with his parents and his brother Cecil Joseph at 388 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley. He was employed as a grocer.

He enlisted 24th January 1916 and joined the 44th Transport Battalion. He was assigned as a Driver on the 16th April 1916. William left Fremantle on the A29 Suevic in June 1916. He deployed to France at the end of 1916, driving tanks in battle. In 1919 he completed a Motor Mechanic Course in England at Messrs Fleetwood and Knott End Motors Limited.

William returned to Australia in October 1919 and was discharged in December 1919.

He returned to the family home at 388 Beaufort St. In 1921 the family moved to 118 Lincoln St, Highgate and William worked as a carrier in the family business.

In 1922 William married Mabel Josephine Bridger (1882-1967) and they moved to South Perth. In 1945 he is listed as working as a lorry driver.

William died on the 5th December 1970 and was cremated at Karrakatta cemetery. His ashes were spread into the Rose Gardens.

Private George Harold Davis was born in Parkes, New South Wales in 1895 to parents Thomas Augustus Davis (1860-1908) and Margaret (nee Connell) (1869-1929). He was one of seven siblings with his younger brother James Percy Davis enlisting before him in 1915.

He enlisted in February 1916 when he was aged 20 and working as a labourer in Perth. He was living with his mother at 469 Beaufort St. This house was owned by another person so it can be assumed that they were boarding there.

He was was allocated to the 16th Reinforcements of the 11th battalion. He embarked to join the British Expeditionary Force, and disembarked in Marseilles France. In June he joined the Base Depot at Etaples, France.

He was killed in action in the field between 20th-23rd August 1916. The Imperial War Graves Commission has a Register of Cemetery and Memorial plaques. He is on the Register of Villiers-Bretonneau Memorial MR 26 Part11 C-F.

His mother received his Memorial Plaque in 1922.

After George died, Margaret moved to 366 Stirling St, Mt Lawley. Again, this house was owned by another person.

Margaret died in 1929. Her husband had predeceased her in 1908.

Private James Percy was born in Adelong, New South Wales in 1898 to parents Thomas Augustus Davis (1860-1908) and Margaret (nee Connell) (1869-1929). He was one of seven siblings with his older brother George Harold Davis enlisting after him into the army.

He enlisted in November 1915 when he was 18 and working as a labourer. He joined the 15th Reinforcements, 16th Battalion. In May 1916 he was transferred to the 48th Battalion.

His military life was a mix of offences committed from drunkenness, absent without leave to disobedience including one offence of having supper at a French eatery and leaving without paying the bill.

In the midst of many offences, he was awarded the Military Medal on 14th October 1917 ‘for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the night of September 30th / 1st October. This man went out under heavy Artillery fire and collected a number of wounded of the 19th Battalion 3rd Brigade who were hit while carrying out relief. He showed great coolness and absolute disregard for his own personal safety.‘

He was court martialed on the 20th December 1917 for disobeying a lawful command and found guilty.

He was wounded in action in the field on the 4th April 1918 with a gunshot wound to his neck and shoulder and sent to England to hospital.

He returned to Australia in February 1919.

He died on 22nd June 1929 at Edward Millen home in Victoria Park, West Australia.

He is buried at Karrakatta cemetery.

Private Harold James Scott was born in Melbourne in 1891 to parents Eileen Mary and William Scott

At the start of the war, 491 Beaufort Street is listed as a News Agency run by William Scott with a Commonwealth Savings Bank attached, run by his sister Stella Jane Scott (1888-1935). While Harold was at war, his mother Eileen moved to 323 Stirling St.

Harold was employed as a bank clerk.

He enlisted in November 1915. He attended the Signalling School and was taken on strength in C Company, 44th Battalion, then made Corporal in March 1916. He left Australia to England in June 1916 and to France in November 1916.

He was wounded in action on the 14th March 1917 with a gunshot wound to the left side and returned to England to hospital. In October 1917, he was temporarily attached for duty with the Australian Army Pay Corp in Weymouth.

He returned to Australia in February 1919. He worked as a Storekeeper initially and then an Accountant.

At the end of the war his mother moved to 91 Chelmsford Rd Mt Lawley where he also lived, then moved with her to Maylands in 1925. He continued to live with his mother.

He enlisted for WWII, with the Army Citizen Military Forces W3168.

He died on the 7th June 1969 at the age of 78 and his ashes were scattered to the winds.

He is memorialised on the National Bank Roll of Honour WWI.

Photo courtesy of VWMA.

Private William James Robertson was born in Townsville Queensland on the 12th December 1892 to John Peter Robertson (1867-1905) and Edith May Hosking (1878-1918) He had one living sister, Ethel Pretoria (1900-1937).

Prior to enlisting in September 1915 he worked for five years as an iron brass moulder at Day Dawn in the Murchison.

He departed in November 1915 from Adelaide to France to join the 32nd Battalion. In October 1916 he was wounded in the field, but the nature of injury was not noted. He was sent to hospital then returned to the field a month later. In May 1917 he was admitted to hospital with sickness for around two months.

In the beginning of October 1918, he was wounded again with a gunshot wound to the right hand and returned to England. he was invalided out and returned to Fremantle in February 1919.

After his discharge he returned to Day Dawn and in a newspaper article of 1919, is welcomed home. Unfortunately, the Great Fingall Consolidated Gold Mining Company which had operated the mine from 1898 until 1918 was closing the mine. By October 1921 the mine was abandoned.

He returned to Perth working as a moulder, living in a couple of addresses in Hay St, Perth. William died on the 11th November 1964.

Private Leslie Charles Holland was born in 1897 to parents Henry Edward Holland and Annie Elizabeth Ludewigs. He had a brother Reginald Norman born 1898 and after their father died, their mother remarried Charles Edward Mumme (1839-1919) in 1904 and a half sister Dorothy May Mumme was born.

Leslie is listed as a farmhand and lived with his mother Annie Elizabeth Mumme.

He enlisted in February 1916 and joined the 15th Reinforcements of the 11th Battalion in February, arriving in England in August 1918 and joined his battalion in November in the field in France. He suffered from sickness and was hospitalised. Leslie offended quite frequently refusing to obey orders and breaking out of hospital. In the beginning of 1918, he was diagnosed a chronic suffocating mastoid and finally returned to Australia in June 1919.

Leslie lived in Beaufort St with his stepfather, listed as Chas E Mumme Grocer and his mother and siblings. After his stepfather died, his mother ran the grocer shop until around 1924.

Leslie married Jessie Adelaide Franklin in 1930 and they moved out of the area.

He was in the RAAF 23rd Squadron in 1937 and served during WWII.

Leslie died on the 5th of March 1972, aged 75.

Private Charles Henry Smith was born in 1882 in Parramatta, New South Wales to parents Walter Smith (1841-1913) and Emily Pettit (1853-1841). He moved to Perth in the early 1900’s and married Alice Peak in 1907 (sister of Gunner Jack Peak).

He was employed as an Acting Engine Driver at the Western Australian Government Railway living with his wife Alice and two children, Walter Jack aged 8 and Stanley Charles aged five. They had been living in West Perth but moved into Alice’s parents’ home when he enlisted in October 1916.

He enlisted at the age of 37 and joined the Railway Unit 2nd Section, leaving Australia in February 1917, arriving two months later in England. In June he proceeded to France as a Corporal but soon became unfit with frequent periods in hospital.

In March 1918 he received a gunshot wound in his arm and was transferred to England and returned to Australia shortly after “for change”

After the war, Hillary Herbert born in 1918 and Kathleen Mavis born 1922.

In 1920 to around 1931 they lived at 92 Brisbane St, Perth and he worked as an engine driver.

Later they moved to Narrogin for work reasons.

Charles Henry died on the 22nd January 1954.

Gunner Jack Peak was born to Ellis Peak (1859-1926) and his mother Eliza Peak (1855-1923). He had three living siblings: Sarah Ann (1880-1963), Alice (1886- 1959), James Arthur (1888-1894) and Ellis (1891-1939).

He was an Apprentice Fitter on the Midland Railways when he enlisted in March 1916 and joined the Artillery Reinforcements as a Gunner before being posted to the 118th Howitzer Battery.

He departed Australia in October 1916, arriving in England in November the same year.
He left for France at the beginning of January 1917and was wounded in action by a gunshot wound to his spine and left shoulder in November 1918. He was shipped to England and spent over six months incapacitated with paraplegia, total incontinence and discharged to Australia as permanently incapacitated and unfit for service.

He returned to live in the family home at 556 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley with his parents and his three siblings, including Alice and her husband Charles Henry Smith.

His father wrote to the Editor of the newspaper in 1918 to thank Jack’s colleagues in the Government Railways for making a chair for Jack so that he could get around (West Australian, Saturday 7 December 1918, page 8).

His parents stayed in the house until they died, when the eldest sister Sarah Ann and her husband Reginald Charles Bender (1879-1935) took over living in the house where the family stayed for many years, even after Reginald died.

Jack had frequent periods in the Repatriation Hospital and was well thought of by staff and patients.

Jack died on the 26th December 1935. There were tributes to him in the newspapers.

Photo courtesy of the Soldiers of Barrack Street.

Trooper William Pead was born in 1864 and was the eldest of a large family of 11. His father Alfred Pead died in 1892. William and his brother Alexander Frederick worked in 1902 at Linden WA. They worked in mining, prospecting and droving in the North until William enlisted and Alex also moved to live with his mother in 118 Broome St, Mt Lawley. Another brother Seymour William Augustus Pead born 1873 also enlisted in WWI.

William first enlisted at the age of 49 in Perth in November 1915. As Trooper 984 he joined the 1st Remount Unit and went to Egypt. He spent two months in hospital with ulcerative keratosis and was returned to Australia as his unit was demobilised, and was discharged November 1916. At this stage he was listed as living at 118 Broome St with his mother Ellen Pead. He later moved to 560 Beaufort St where he may have been a boarder as he is not listed on electoral rolls or rate books.

He reenlisted in December 1916 (Surname later stated to be Pead and consequently updated on NAA documents) Pead SN 984 and Bead 6542 again under the name William Bead SN 6542, aged 45 with the address 560 Beaufort St. He joined 19th Reinforcements 28th Battalion as a Private. He left Fremantle in January 1917 and was sent into the field in France in October 1917. In November 1917 he was gassed and a month later suffered from Trench Foot. He was returned to Australia in October 1918 and was discharged as being over age with the onset of senility, debility. He was aged 54.

William died in May 1920. He tragically fell down the stairs of the SS Caron when as a passenger returning to Fremantle from his job as boundary rider in Onslow, WA.

Frederick Arthur Sleigh was born in Yorkshire England on the 23rd March 1871 to parents Roger Fanning Sleigh (1833-1906) and Martha Bland (born 1837). He was one of six siblings.

Frederick married Lucia Cecilia De La Plato (1893-1949) in 1908 in England. Their first child, Lucia Cecilia De La Plato Sleigh, was born in 1909 in South Australia, as was their second child, Carl Ernest De La Plato Sleigh in 1911. Edna De La Plato Sleigh was born in 1913 in Albany WA and died in Perth in 1915. Arthur Wilhelm De La Plato Sleigh was born in 1914 in Perth and died in 1915 as well.

In 1914 the family were living in Stone St, Perth, moving to Beaufort St in 1915.

Company Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Arthur Sleigh enlisted in Perth in November 1914.

He joined the 2nd Reinforcements of the 16th Battalion and went to Egypt, then was transferred to C Company 32nd Battalion in the field in France. During this period, he had frequent hospitalisations for scabies, myalgia and rheumatism, At the beginning of 1918 he was returned to Australia on the “Port Darwin” and discharged as medically unfit due to disability, rheumatism and overage. He was 47.

They had two other daughters in 1916 and 1918, but details are not known.

After Frederick’s return from war the family returned to South Australia.

Lucia died in 1949 in Adelaide and Frederick died on the 1st January 1957.

Private Robert Mackenzie Meechin was born in Scotland on the 17th of April 1883 to parents Andrew Meechin (1843) and Helen Walker Mair (1843-1909), and he was one of seven siblings. His next of kin is listed as his brother Henry in England as both his parents were dead.

He enlisted in March 1916 at the age of 27. He is listed as a Greengrocer. He left Fremantle in November 1916, arriving in England the following year and proceeded to France in April 1917 with the 28th Battalion, 17th Reinforcements.

He was wounded in action in August 1918 with a severe gunshot wound to his left leg and invalided back to England.

In January 1919 he married Mary Ann Jemima Bullen (1894-1966) in North Fleet, England, returned to Australia in May 1920 and was discharged August 1920.

By 1923 he was living with his wife in the Pyrton Estate, Caversham, working as a Vigneron and in 1931 they ran Meechin’s Store at Caversham. This later became known as Meechin’s Store, Post Office and Motor Service Station, West Swan Rd, Caversham and the family were still there in 1963.

They had three children, with the oldest, Henry Frederick, born in England in 1920. The family returned to Perth after Henry’s birth and Andrew Hardy Malcolm was born in 1921 and Beatrice Helen Mccaughie in 1926.

Robert enlisted for WWII in the Army Citizen Military Forces SN W242852 but the record has not been digitised yet.

Robert died on the 23rd July 1966 and is buried in the Guildford cemeteries, as are Mary Ann Jemima (died 1966), Henry (1920-1999) and Andrew (1921-2010).

Private Robert Mclean MacMillan, was born in Brisbane on the 26th of February 1895 to parents Nathaniel Harvey Macmillan (1847-1911) and Julie Currie (1852-1911).

They had 11 children: Mary (1871-1943), George (1873-1931) who served in WWI but lived at 136 Summer St in East Perth, John (1876-1920), Alexander (1879-1914), Jessie (1881-1919), Barbara (1884-) Julia (1884-1919), Jean (1888-1917), Nathaniel Harvey (1890-1917) and Annabelle (1893-1930).

Robert was living with one of his sisters in 595 Beaufort St when he enlisted. She was still living there after the war.

Robert enlisted in Perth in September 1915 at the age of 22 and was working as a clerk. Both his parents were dead, and his brother George Macmillan was listed as next of kin.

In January 1916 he left for active service with the 28th Battalion. He was taken on strength in France with the 51st Battalion in June 1916.

On the 3rd September 1916, he was posted as missing in action, then reported officially as a Prisoner of War in Germany. He was captured at Mouquet Farm on the Somme. He was unwounded and interred at Dulmen Prisoner of War Camp in Germany.

In December 1918 he was repatriated to England and returned to Australia in April 1919.

There is no indication where Robert went after the war. He had been a prisoner of war and had lost his parents before the war and three siblings by the time he came home from war.

Corporal Oswald William Hopkins was born on the 22nd August 1891 in Ourimbahe, New South Wales to parents James Hopkins (1851-1904) and Jane M Carter (1860-1936). They had eight children all born in New South Wales. The family moved to Perth around 1903 and in 1904 Oswald’s father died.

He was a seaman in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve in Fremantle.

He enlisted in the Army in Perth in August 1914 and was living with his mother 606 Beaufort St. He embarked on active service in October 1914 reaching Egypt in December 1914.

He was promoted to Lance Corporal in January 1915. Wounded in the Dardanelles in August 1915, he was transferred to England for recovery. Promoted to Corporal he joined the 54th Battalion in France.

In July 1916 he was again wounded in action with a severe gunshot wound to the right arm. He was transferred to England for ongoing treatment and later sent back to Australia where he was discharged on the grounds of “medical unfitness and for a change”.

In 1917 Oswald married Emily Beatson (1894-1954) in Sydney. They had five children in New South Wales. After Emily died, Oswald married Mabel Minnie Conley (widow) in 1962.

He died at the Repatriation Hospital in Concord NSW on the 25th December 1967.

Joseph Patrick Kenny was born on the 8th January 1887 to parents Daniel Patrick Kenny (1869 -1915) and Kathleen Mary (nee Olliffe) (1867-1946). He was one of seven siblings.

He married Jessie Olive Brooks (1890-1957) in 1914 in Victoria. She lived in Ballarat, Victoria throughout the duration of the war.

Major Joseph Patrick Kenny enlisted twice in WWI, first as Captain in December 1914 in the 4th Field Ambulance. In April 1915 he landed in Gallipoli. He was wounded in August 1915 with gunshot shrapnel to the left arm. In November he was evacuated to England and was back in Australia in December 1915.

His second enlistment was in March 1916 at Blackboy Hill in the 19th Field Ambulance. He left for Melbourne and proceeded to France in June 1916. He was promoted to the rank of Major.

In November 1917 he was mentioned in Dispatches for conspicuous service in the field.

In August 1918 he returned to Australia on one of the Staff Ships.

He had a daughter who was born in 1916 and a son in 1920.

He was a Medical Practitioner and had his medical practice at 309 Hay St, Perth where he and Jessie lived for years.

He served in WWII (1939 – 1948) Number: W14341 .

He died on the 18th October 1951 in Safety Bay, Western Australia and is buried with his parents at Karrakatta Cemetery.

This link shows a photo at the Australian War Memorial of the 10th Field Ambulance Officers.

Photo of Major Kenny is courtesy of Ancestry

Private Leslie Augustus McAullay was born in Wagin, Western Australia on the 6th April 1899 to parents James Edward McAullay (1854-1925) and Mary Ann (nee Wilks) (1961-1916). Leslie was one of 12 living siblings. The family lived on the family farm in Wagin.

He enlisted to the war in June 1918 with the 11th Battalion Reinforcements, and was living (probably boarding) at the house in Beaufort St which was owned by a Mrs. Smith. Leslie was working as a labourer.

He departed Australia arriving in England two months later in July 1918.

In January 1919 he proceeded to France into the field. A month later he was hospitalised with influenza and in June was returned to Australia and demobilised in July 1919.

He married Iris Adele Cleverley (1901- 1983) in 1922. Iris was also from a large family with six sisters and two brothers. Her father Thomas Duncan Cleverley had a greengrocer/fruiterer shop at 658 Beaufort St and also tried to enlist but was denied due to ill health.

Leslie and Iris had a large family of 10 children.

Leslie enlisted in WWII the Army, Citizen Military Forces W56408 but his record is not available.

They lived in various places in WA, not staying in the Mt Lawley area.

Leslie died on the 10th October 1963 when living in Guildford and is buried at Karrakatta

Photo courtesy of Ancestry.

Corporal Hubert Henry James Vincent was born on the 1st July 1893 at Shere, Surrey, England to parents Charles Vincent (1864-1917) and Henrietta Elizabeth Bullen (1867-1943). He was one of eight siblings. He travelled to live in Perth in June 1912 when he was 18 years old. 634 Beaufort St was owned by a fruiterer Mr. Henry and Mrs. Jones so he was probably a boarder above the shop.

He was working as a Shunter when he enlisted.

Hubert enlisted in January 1916 and joined the 44th Battalion.

He left Fremantle in June 1916, arrived in England the end of July, and went into the field in France in November 1916.

In March 1917 he was accidentally injured on the finger in the trenches. but remained on duty. He was made Lance Corporal in September 1917 and then Corporal.

On the 4th October 1917 he was killed in action in the field in Belgium.

He has no apparent grave. He is memorialised on the Bayswater War Memorial and the Menin Gate Memorial as “known unto God”.

Hubert had married Myrtle Ivy Coller (1894-1959) in 1916. While he was at war, she was living at 433 Newcastle St which was possibly again a boarding house owned by a Mrs. Nesbit.

Myrtle remarried in 1923 to Michael Johannes (John) Seery (1892-1958) and lived in Victoria Park.

Private Eric Michael Heenan was born on the 29th April 1900 in Kanowna, Western Australia to parents Michael Joseph Heenan (1859-1926) and Josephine Frances (nee McCarthy) (1868- 1935). Eric was one of seven siblings. His brother Neville James Heenan also enlisted in WWI. He was a schoolteacher and his father lived in Esperance.

Eric enlisted in July 1918 and he joined the 3rd reinforcements.

He left Fremantle in October 1918, but the troopship the Boonah was recalled and returned to West Australia because of an outbreak of the Spanish flu. The ship was in quarantine with the sick soldiers being transferred to the quarantine station at Woodsman Point where Eric spent a month convalescing.

He was discharged from service in January 1919.

Eric returned after the war to live at the house in Beaufort St, studying law.

By 1931 he was living and practicing law in Kalgoorlie where he later met his wife Joan Mary McKenna (1910-2002) who had lived with her family at 13 Alvan, St Mount Lawley. They married in 1937.

Eric enlisted in Kalgoorlie for WWII for the ACMF SN W 72667.

They continued to live in Kalgoorlie until 1950 before coming down to live at 28 Almondbury Rd, Mt Lawley.

Eric entered politics in 1936 as the Labor member of the Legislative Council for the North East Province. He remained in politics until 1968.

He died on the 26th June 1998.

Photo courtesy of ABC online and family.

Trooper Edward Thomas Keogh was born on the 5th January 1892 at Ashfield, New South Wales to parents Thomas Keogh (1860-1937) and Catherine (nee McKeon) (1865-1965) and one of four siblings, one brother James Patrick (1866-1966) and two sisters: Amy Bertha (1888-1971) and Elizabeth Mary (1894-1975).

The Keogh family had two addresses in Beaufort Street in 1915. Number 641 is listed as being owned by Miss Keogh who was a Milliner (probably Edward’s sister Elizabeth).

His father Thomas Keogh also enlisted in WWI.

Edward enlisted in July 1915 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales in the Light Horse Regiment. He had been working in Darlinghurst as a horseman and groom.

He was taken on strength in Egypt in February 1916 and marched out to Serapeum ex Maadi. He spent nearly a year in Moascar training camp with a couple of reprimands for being absence from camp without permission and a period in hospital with an infected toe.

He was later transferred to the 7th Reinforcements and embarked to go to the Dardanelles in October 1917 but was disembarked at Port Said and admitted to hospital in Abbassia. He was sick with malaria and in spite of periods of convalescence, died of relapsing fever on 11th March 1919.

He was buried in Cairo in the Military Cemetery.

He is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial.

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Private Thomas Keogh was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1860. He married Catherine nee McKeon (1865- 1965) and they had four children: James Patrick (1886-1966), Amy Bertha (1888-1971), Edward Thomas (1892-1919) and Elizabeth Mary (1894-1975).

In 1914 some of the family was living at 643 Beaufort St which was a Newsagent and Library run by James Patrick.

Thomas enlisted twice in WWI. He enlisted in August 1915. His age is noted at 44. He joined the 12th Reinforcements of the 16th Battalion. He is listed as a labourer.

He was taken on strength in March 1916 at the Tel el Kabir Training Camp Egypt. In November the same year he was hospitalised with recurrent bronchitis and in April 1917 returned to Australia for a change. He was discharged in June 1917 with “bronchitis and overage”.

He joined the war effort again in August 1917 with the stated age of 54. He joined the 5th District Guards but was admitted to the Clearing Hospital at Blackboy Hill with a crushed toe.

He was discharged at his own request in October 1917.

By 1920 his son James Patrick had moved to 660 Beaufort St with the Newsagency and Stationers. Thomas’s wife Catherine was living at 102 Chelmsford Rd, Mt Lawley and in 1923 she moved to 49 Woodville St, North Perth.

Thomas died on the 2nd April 1937. The West Australian reported that he “was found dead in a room at his residence in James St “.

He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth.

Private Edwin Eustace Cook was born in Collingwood Victoria in 1877 to parents Edwin Eustace Cook (1857-1880) and Cecilia Bryce (1854-1920). Edwin Junior had two siblings Jessie Frances (1875- 1967) and Felix Ingmire (1879-1929).

After their father died, their mother remarried in 1888 to James Unthank and lived in Somerville, Victoria. He was living with sister-in-law Antonia Cook. His brother, Felix Cook, had also enlisted in the war.

When he enlisted in July 1917, he was 38 years old, joining the 11th Reinforcements 51st Battalion. He left Australia in October 1917 arriving in England in December the same year.

In January 1918, he was hospitalised with mumps and influenza, and headed off overseas to France in March 1918. In April he was taken on strength in the field.

On 24th April 1918 he was killed in action.

In June 1919 he was re-buried in the Adelaide British Cemetery south of Corbie in France.

Antonia and Felix continued living in Beaufort Street, then moved to Aberdeen Street and years later Antonia was living at 23 Chelmsford St, Mt Lawley. She died in 1947.

Private Felix Cook was one of three children born in Collingwood Victoria to Edwin Eustace Cook (1857-1880) and Cecilia Bryce (1854-1920). Felix had two siblings Jessie Frances (1875- 1967) and Edwin Eustace (1875- 1918).

Felix married Antonia (nee Coelli) (1874-1947) in New Zealand in 1901. Felix was a Police Constable in Perth. He lived with his wife in Beaufort Street.

He enlisted in June 1916 aged 36. He joined the 4th Reinforcements 44th Battalion.

He left Fremantle in October 1916, arriving in England in December. He joined his Battalion in France in 1917.

In June 1917 he was awarded the Military Medal for “conspicuous service in the field”.

In August the same year, he had a back strain injury but stayed on duty. In October he was wounded again by a gunshot wound in the left arm and fractured radius and was shipped back to England to hospital.

In March 1918 he left for Australia for change due to “strain of back, shell concussion and gunshot wound”.

Felix continued his career as a police Constable, transferring to country Western Australia, mainly Denmark until 19th March 1929.

He died on the 26th March 1929 following infection to a stubbed toe and blood poisoning causing septic pneumonia from which he died in the Albany Hospital.

His funeral was held at Karrakatta Cemetery.

Photo courtesy of Ancestry.

Private Charles James Digwood was born on the 15th May 1987 in Treharris, Glamorganshire, Wales. His parents Harry Digwood (1871-1935), his mother Elizabeth Ann (nee Hill)(1972-1928) and four siblings arrived in Fremantle, Australia from Wales by ship in 1905.

He was an apprentice barber from Collie where his father lived. It is assumed that Charles was boarding in the house in Beaufort Street.

He enlisted in July 1915 at the age of 18.

He joined the 4th Reinforcements 28th Battalion and left Australia.

He was taken on strength in France in January 1916 and remained in the field until October 1916 when he was sick and hospitalised. On his return to the field in about three weeks later he was seriously wounded with a gunshot wound to the right femur and left thigh. Seriously unwell, he was shipped to England for hospital.

In July 1917 he was returned to Australia for change and discharged in March 1918.

In December 1918 Charles married Louisa (Lily) Dix (1900-1955). They had four children, the first born in 1919.

They initially lived a couple of years in Fremantle moving down to Collie in southwestern Australia in 1931 he was admitted to hospital where he died on the 18th January 1931 and is buried there in the cemetery. On the 31st January 1931 the coroner released his report on the death which was by shotgun wound to the chest

He is memorialised at the Collie High School.

Private Jack Noel Lemon was born in 1894 in Sydney New South Wales to parents John Herbert Lemon (1859-1948) and Ellen Jane Mellen (nee James) (1862-1956). Jack was had two siblings: Sadie Hermoine (1899-) and Charles Israel (1902-1973).

In 1914 the family was living in Milligan Street, Perth but were living in Beaufort Street when Jack enlisted in May 1915 aged 20.

He was an Engineer and joined the 7th Reinforcements of the 12th Battalion.

He left Australia headed for Gallipoli and was taken on strength in August 1915. Shortly after he became sick with enteritis and debility and was sent to hospital in Malta and then to England in November 1915. In June 1916 he was sent to France to join the troops in the field.

On the 22nd August 1916 he died of wounds received in action at the 7th Field Ambulance and was buried at Becourt Military Wood Cemetery in France.

The family were still in Beaufort Street in 1919, but moved away from Mt Lawley for few years. In 1929 they are listed as living at 30 Woodroyd St and in 1931 -1935 living at 50 Farnley St, Mt Lawley.

Photo courtesy of VWMA.

Private Sydney James Bolt was born in Claremont West Australia on 27th July 1898 to parents James Robert Bolt (1867-1933) and Alice Maud (nee Young( (1869-1907) He was one of four children. His siblings were Frances William (1892-1896), Charles Edward (1900-1974), Alice May (1904-1974) and later a brother born in 1916.

He worked as a Bank Clerk aged nearly 19 when he enlisted in August 1917 with the 28th Battalion 19 to 22 Reinforcements (January 1917 – March 1918).

He left Fremantle in March 1918 for active service abroad. He was promoted to Acting Lance/Corporal a week before he left. In May 1918 he went into training camp in Fovant, England, reverting to Private.

In November 1918 he marched out for duty with the Commonwealth Bank in England.

In September 1919 he returned to Australia on the Barambah and he was discharged when he landed in October.

In May 1923 Sydney enlisted with the Royal Australian Air Force at Point Cook as a clerk of stores. On the 7th April 1924 he left the service and 10 days later he was issued with a warrant for desertion.

In Victoria in 1926 he married Ilma Lillian Ison (1905-1987). They lived in Victoria but later they moved back to Perth outside the Mount Lawley area.

In WWII he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force, SN A9302

He died on the 5th July 1976 and remains are placed in the Garden of Remembrance.

He is memorialised at Trinity Church Perth.

Captain Arthur Reginald White was born on the 31st October 1886 in Sydney to parents William White (1851-1925) and Alice Eleanor Wallace (1864-1942). He was one of four siblings: Leslie Errol (1896-1958), William Charles (1899-1955) and Grace Marion White (1897-1972).

He married Beatrice Annie Wigg (1880-1972) in 1912.

He enlisted in July 1915 in Perth, Western Australia.

In July 1915 he was appointed Captain in the 32nd Battalion. He was promoted to Major in July 1916 and left overseas to the field in France.

In August 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in action ‘Though blown through the air by a shell in the advance he led on through the enemy barrage till he reached their trenches where he did fine work in consolidating the position won. When the enemy counter attacked he charged with fixed bayonets to create a diversion while his machine guns got into safety.’

In September 1916 he was admitted to a field hospital and a few weeks later he was evacuated, ill and suffering from neurasthenia, he needed rest and was placed on the secondment list.

In January 1917 Captain White proceeded to France again and was appointed 2nd in command 32nd Battalion. In May 1917 he was appointed Officer Commanding the Divisional Reinforcement Wing in the field, but concern arose over his suitability to continue duty due to recurrence of neurasthenia (referred at this date to Shell Shock), and he was returned to Australia as no other suitable employment could be found.

After the war he returned to live at 678 Beaufort St with his wife and children and until 1942.

He also served in WWII.

He died on the 12th October 1957. His remains are at Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth.

Photo courtesy of Faithe Jones VWMA

Private Leslie Errol White Leslie was born in Dubbo, New South Wales on the 23rd January 1896 to parents William White (1851-1925) and Alice Eleanor Wallace (1864-1942). He was one of four siblings: Arthur Reginald (1886-1957), William Charles (1899-1955) and Grace Marion White (1897-1972).

He enlisted in July 1915 aged 19. He was a Clerk and joined the 19th Reinforcements 11th Battalion. In September 1915 he was promoted to sergeant.

In January 1916 he was transferred to the Camel Corps. In June the same year he was hospitalised with heat exhaustion. After leaving hospital he was appointed Technical Company Quartermaster Sergeant.

In December 1916 he was hospitalised with pyrexia, malaria and debility.

In May 1917 he completed the 26th Hotchkiss Machine gun course and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant and returned to the field.

In December 1917 he was wounded by a gunshot wound to his head fracturing his skull. He was admitted to hospital and returned to Australia in March 1918 and discharged from service.

He married Florence Jane Elder (1902-1991) in 1936 in North Sydney, New South Wales.

He spent time in Malaysia from 1939-1949.

He died on the 2nd May 1958 in Northbridge, New South Wales.

He is memorialised on the Perth Modern School WWI Honour Board in Subiaco, Perth.

Private Robert Wachman was born in March 1884 in Dublin, Ireland to Parents Moses Maurice Wachman (Morris) (1865-1937) and Seina nee Jackson (1871-1927). Robert was one of eight children: Abram (1890-1950), who also served in WWI, Simon David (1892-1958), Edward Esidore (1899-1939), Harry (1901-1955), Sadie Reva (1904-1932), Ernest (1907-1981) and Beatrice (1913-1976).

Robert enlisted in November 1915, aged 21. He lived with his father in Beaufort Street and is listed as a Traveller.

In February 1916 he joined the reinforcements of the 48th Battalion. In April he was allocated to the 16th Training Battalion in Tel el Kabir. In June he embarked to join the British Expeditionary Force in France.

In January 1917 he was a temporary Corporal promoted to Corporal in March 1917.

In April 1917 he was reported missing in action in France. A Court of Enquiry was held in December 1917 and determined that he was killed in action. He has apparent grave- “Known Unto God”.

His family was informed of the result of the Enquiry.

His death notice was placed in the newspaper.

At beginning of the war Seina moved to 137 Lake St, Perth along with Abram’s wife Nellie Elizabeth. The rest of the family remained in Beaufort Street until around 1929 then left Beaufort Street, although Abram and Edward stayed in the area living in Harold and Central Avenue, Mount Lawley.

Robert is memorialised on the Jewish War Memorial in Perth.

Private John Collier was born in Northcote, Victoria around 1892. It is very hard to trace his actual family, but he was a nephew to Phillip Collier (1873-1948) and his wife Ellen Heagney (1976-1950), and they are listed as his next of kin.

680 Beaufort St was the home of the Gluck family where he would have been boarding with the two others who enlisted.

John first tried to enlist in June 1915 but was not accepted due to dental issues. He enlisted successfully one month later. He was 22 years old, and a printing stereotyper. His next of kin was his Uncle Phillip Collier (later to become a member of WA’s Parliament).

John joined the 11th Battalion and after a short admission to hospital for otitis media, joined C Company in March 1916 and went overseas to France.

He was first reported as missing in the field in July 1916 but was found a couple of days later, wounded in action in the right knee.

Two months later he was despatched to England for treatment and spent time in hospital. In February 1917, he left England to Australia with recurrent hydrops in his knee.

He was discharged from service in September 1917.

He returned to live with his uncle Phillip and his Aunt Ellen on his return in Clotilde Street, Mount Lawley.

He had several jobs with the newspaper, moving into boarding houses around 1931.

He died on the 3rd June 1946 when he was living in Murray Street, Perth he was found unconscious by his landlady and taken to hospital deceased. An autopsy report declared he died of natural causes. He was 54.

Private Montague (Monty) Berend Glick was born in London England, one of five children born to Albert Gluck (1851-1911) and Harriett (nee Barnett) (1856-1926). His siblings were: Leopold Joel Gluck (1882-1915), Martin Lionel Gluck (1883-1934), Victor Mark Glick (1889-1976) and Miryam Rose Janetta Gluck (1896-1959).

He enlisted when he was 31 and employed as a clerk in Melbourne, Victoria. His mother and siblings lived in Perth.

He left Melbourne in December 1917 as an Acting Corporal. Arriving in England he was in command of the Rifle and Lewis Machine guns School in January 1918.

He was admitted to Hospital off and on for the two months of February to April 1918 with bronchitis and hernia.

He embarked in September 1918 to France with the 51st Battalion and was taken on strength in the field in October. In May 1919 he returned to England and was granted leave for nonmilitary employment for business in London.

He returned to Australia in October 1919 and discharged in December.

Monty married Jessie Levoi from Melbourne in 1921 at the Perth Synagogue. In 1925 he is listed as a Tobacconist living at 87 First Ave, Mt Lawley. The couple had three children born in Perth. The family moved to Melbourne in the 1930’s.

Monty died on the 5th July 1966 and is buried in Chevra Kadisha Cemetery Springvale.

Private Leopold Joel Gluck was born in London England on the 21st June 1882 and was one of five children born to Albert Gluck (1851-1911) and Harriett (nee Barnett) (1856-1926). His siblings were: Montague Berend Glick (1886-1966), Martin Lionel Gluck (1883-1934), Victor Mark Glick (1889-1976) and Miryam Rose Janetta Gluck (1896-1959).

He enlisted in August 1914 in Perth at the age of 32. He was employed as a tailors cutter.

He embarked to join the 11th Battalion Infantry in the Gallipoli Peninsula in March 1915.

He was killed in action on the 2nd May 1915 on the Dardanelle Straits.

He has no apparent Grave -“Known Unto God”.

His mother was given a brown parcel with his personal effects and received a pension of two pounds a fortnight.

He is memorialised on the Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial.

The family continued to live at 680 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley and they were still there in 1925. They mostly lived in the locality.

Miryam married Walter Russell and lived in Vale Road, Mt Lawley, Martin married Annie Luber (who died at 680 Beaufort St in 1914) and Victor married Frances Ester (Fanny) Schenberg and lived in Graham Road, Mt Lawley. The Luber and Schenberg families as well as the Glicks were well known Jewish families in Mount Lawley.

Private John Frederick Dier was born in Heathfield, England on the 8th January 1983 to James Dier (1847-1938) and Hannah Marchant (1849-1886). He was one of six siblings born between 1872 and 1888 and five half siblings born between 1893 and 1908 after his father remarried Katherine Mary Winchester in 1892.

He was the only one to leave England for Australia in April 1912. He completed an apprenticeship in England as a saddler. He stayed in Mount Lawley at ‘Addiscombe ‘ 691 Beaufort St, owned by Henry Holland JP.

John enlisted in July 1915 at Perth, aged 29 and joined the 9th of the 16th Reinforcements leaving from Fremantle in October 1915. He was taken on strength in that unit in January 1916 but was transferred to the 48th Battalion Divisional Salvage Company in March the same year.

John was taken on command with the Salvage Company in France on 16th July and continued in the field until he was detached to the Corps Salvage Unit in July 1918.

He returned to Australia on the HMAT A78 Anchises in February 1919 and was discharged from service in June the same year.

After he returned from war, he moved to Busselton employed as a Harness Maker and married Bertha Isabella Tonkin (1893-1958).

They moved to South Australia in the 1930’s. Bertha died in 1958 and John on the 2nd February 1967.

They are survived by three children.

Gabriel was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on the 1st July 1898 to Alexander Cohen (1862-1919) and Dora Mandelstam (1878-1931). His brother was Leon Cohen (1902-1956). Gabriel had two half siblings from his mother’s first marriage to Abraham Kott (1866-1896). They were Rosa Kott (1893-1959) and Pauline Kott (1896-1948).

Private Gabriel Cohen SN 62784 enlisted in June 1918 at the age of 19 years. He is listed as a medical student.
He had been rejected two months previously on his first attempt to enlist in Melbourne because of vision concerns but was accepted in WA when he moved back in with his parents.

Gabriel left Fremantle in October 1918 with the W 3 Reinforcements.

There is no history after that on his Military Record and he returned to Australia.

In April 1920 he applied for financial assistance to continue his medical studies to be submitted to the Commission.

In 1925 in the Electoral Rolls Gabriel’s mother Dora was still living at 692 Beaufort St.

Gabriel married Dorothea Rosetta Kemp (1899-1968) in Victoria in 1921. He finished his medical studies and worked as a Doctor in Melbourne. They had two daughters born 1923 (Alexandra) and 1926 (Joan).

Gabriel enlisted for WWII in Heidelberg Victoria VX111296, B883 AIF.

He died on the 14th December 1958 in Victoria and is memorialised on the Mount Lawley- Inglewood Memorial.

Warrant Officer First Class Maxwell Kott (Max) was one of three children born to Abraham Kott (1866-1896) and Dora Mandelstam (1878-1931). He had two sisters, Rose Kott (1893-1959) and Pauline Kott (1896-1948). He also had two half-brothers from his mother’s remarriage to Alexander Cohen (1862-1919). They were Gabriel Cohen (1898-1958) and Leon Cohen (1902-1956).

Max enlisted in Perth in February 1916 at the age of 25. He was working as a Solicitor.

In May 1916 he was a nominal member of 21st reinforcement for 11th Battalion, and was attached to 3 Training Group, Within a few days he went to NCO School, attending a Bombing and Trench Warfare and Bayonet Fighting Course and was promoted to Corporal.

In February 1917 he was attached to the 1st Area Pay Corps London, rose through the ranks at Administration Headquarters and in November 1917 was promoted to Warrant Officer Class 1.

In February 1919 he was granted leave with pay until November to attend the Council of Legal Education at Lincolns Inn as a Law Student.

He returned to Australia mid-November 1919 and was discharged two months later.

In 1925 Max married Lillian May Lucas (1892-1960). They had two daughters and moved to Claremont shortly after they married. Max set up as a sole lawyer and then formed the legal firm Kott, Wallace and Gunning.

Max died on the 15th August 1976 and is buried in the Jewish section at Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth.

Lieutenant Herbert William Sargent Moffatt was born in Fremantle on the 18th April 1893 to Thomas Joseph Moffatt (1869-1946) and Mary Brady (1867-1932). Herbert had three siblings: Gertrude Brady Moffatt (1895-1982), David Ross Moffatt (1898-1934) and Joseph Ormsby Moffatt (1905-1975).

He was 24 years old when he enlisted in November 1915. He had been employed as an Assistant Town Clerk. He joined the 43rd Infantry Battalion.

He left Fremantle in November 1916, arriving in England in January 1917. He was taken on strength in the 43rd Battalion in the field.

In July 1917 he was promoted to Lieutenant.

A few days later he was killed in action on the 31st July 1917 in Belgium. He has no apparent grave -“Known unto God”. His memorial is at Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium.

He also is memorialised at North Perth Presbyterian Church and the Mount Lawley-Inglewood Memorial.

His family lived at 24 Farnley St, Mt Lawley until around 1928.

Private James Warren, born at sea on the 18th December 1883, was one of five children born to John James Michael Warren (1859-1893) and Rosa Littlefield (1860-1931). His siblings were: Lucy Alice (1887-1963), Eric John Truro Warren (1888-1948), John Richards Warren (1890-1955) and Arthur Littlefield Warren (1892-1894)

James was nearly 31 when he applied to enlist in August 1914. He had been working for 16 years as an Engineer for the Western Australian Railways. He joined A Company, 2nd Battalion, transferring to the 5th Pioneers when he left to travel to England.

In England he embarked with the British Expeditionary Forces to Marseilles and was attached to the 1st Army Forest Control in the field. At the beginning of 1917 he was wounded in the head and admitted to hospital. When recovered, he re-joined his platoon.

In April 1918, he was severely gassed in the field, transferred to Cheltenham hospital and died of his wounds in June 1918. He is buried in the Soldiers Plot at Cheltenham Cemetery in England.

He is memorialised at the Haymarket New South Wales Government railways and Tramways Honour Board as well as the Australian War Memorial.

In 1915 Lucy married Captain Hilton Ward Ennis (who served in WWI and WWII) and she continued to live in Beaufort Street while he was away at the Great War.

In 1897 Rosa remarried James Torrance (1860-1919) and had another child, Peter Warren Torrance (1900-1946). Eric John Truro remained living in 720 Beaufort St for a while after the war and then the house was sold out of the family. Rosa moved to 26 Clotilde St, Mt Lawley around 1923 where she died in 1931.

Frederick William Hogan was born in York, Western Australia on the 16th February 1882 and was one of nine children born to John William Hogan (1851-1900) and Martha Jane Wisbey (1859-1940).

In 1907 Frederick married Kathleen Stinton (1886-1970). They had three children, Florence May (1909-2001), Olive Mabel (1913-2001) and Edwin Albert (1921-1944).

Frederick enlisted at the age of 34 on the 6th June 1916. He had worked as a Civil Servant.

In July 1916 he joined the 24th Reinforcements and went to Non-Commissioned Officer school in September 1916 when he was promoted to Corporal.

He left Fremantle on the H.M.A.T A 28 Miltiades in January 1917, arriving in England two months later.

In June 1917 in England, he attended a specialist training course on bombing.

In the beginning of 1918, he was admitted to hospital with rheumatism, followed two months later with laryngitis.

He proceeded to France in March 1918 with the Training Battalion to reinforce the 51st Battalion.

He was wounded in action on the 26th April 1918 with a gunshot wound in his left buttock and on the 10th of June the same year received a gunshot wound to his face. In September he was again admitted to hospital with myalgia and in January 1919 was returned to Australia, being discharged in April 1919 as medically unfit.

Frederick’s son Edwin Albert died aged 22 during WWII in a flying battle over Germany in 1944.

The family remained living in Beaufort Street until 1948.

Frederick died on the 13th December 1946.

He is memorialised on an Honour Roll for the Department of Land and Surveys in Midland.

Photo courtesy of the soldiers of the barracks taken 1916.

Sydney Clyde Smith was born in Perth in 1898 and one of two boys born to George Arthur Smith (b 1869) and Elizabeth Lillias Maddock (1878-1949). His brother Thomas William “Lawley” Smith (1903-1975) married in 1924 and moved to North Perth.

Sydney enlisted in July 1916 at the age of 18. He was working as a Joiner. He left Fremantle in January 1917 arriving in England in March and was taken on strength with the 11th Reinforcements in August 1917 and sent to France.

He was reported missing in action on 21st September 1917.

His body was found and identified a few days later, and according to records in the National Army Archives: “On the 23rd September Pte Carr SN 3085 reported he passed the dead body of Sydney C. Smith and took his testament and diary from his pocket and forwarded it to his relatives in Beaufort Street“.

In April 1918, a Court of Enquiry found that he had been killed in action.

He has no apparent grave – “Known Unto God” but is memorialised on many memorials, including the Lenin Gate Memorial in Ypres, France.

After 1920 the family moved away from Beaufort Street.

Addenda: At the Inglewood library presentation on the Anzacs, invitations were for people to bring along any artefacts from WW1 . Joy Yukich brought along a little red box with memorabilia of
her brother’s grandfather who fell at Polygon Wood in September 1917. This box included Sydney’s diary and a few photos .

Bookmark donated by Joy Yukich.

Carl was one of the sons born to William Shaw Ferguson (1864-1940) and Adelaide Mabel Zahringer (1871-1958). Carl was the eldest of the boys, born 22nd November 1898, followed by Stuart John (1905-1962) and Clifford Hope (1907-1993).

Carl Godfrey Ferguson enlisted at the age of 18 in August 1916. He had been working as a Clerk and living with his parents and brothers.

He started in the 80th Depot and transferred from one to another until February 1917 when he joined the Artillery and became a Gunner joining the 29th Reinforcements.

He left Australia at the end of 1917 and arrived in England in January 1918. In April he proceeded to France with the 4th DAC, then transferred to the 11th FAB.

He returned to Australia in May 1919 and was discharged in July 1919.

In 1924, Carl married Agnes Draper Pilgrim (1898-1991) from South Australia in Perth.

They had one son born in 1925, Alan Shaw (1925-2018).

The family moved into a house in 76 Fourth Ave. Mt Lawley in 1925 and remained there until the 1970’s.

Carl died on the 22nd February 1977.

Photo courtesy of Ancestry

Clifford was one of three children born to John Threader (1871-1964) and Ada Jane (nee Hunt) (1874-1951) The family moved from England arriving in Fremantle Australia in 1910. The family initially lived in Darkan where John is listed as a bootmaker, and moved to Beaufort Street shortly before Clifford enlisted. Clifford had a brother Victor John (1894-1972) and a sister Alice Rosa Elwers (1909-2001). They moved to Victoria, married, lived and died there.

Private Clifford Harold Threader, born in Bristol, England and was 18 when he enlisted in Perth in January 1916. He was working as a Printer and living with his parents in Beaufort Street.

He joined the 46 Depot and then the 17th Field Ambulance, being promoted to Corporal in November 1916.

He left Fremantle in November 1916 and reverted to Private on arrival in England in January 1917. He proceeded to France with the 7R-5th Pioneers and was wounded in action in May and later hospitalised with VDH (heart disease). He was repatriated to England, unfit to serve and returned to Australia towards the end of 1917.

In the meantime, his family had moved to Victoria, and he followed them. He died from heart disease in May 1921 and is buried in Brighton Cemetery.

Clifford had a brother Victor John (1894-1972) and a sister Alice Rosa Elwers (1909-2001). They moved to Victoria, married, lived and died there.