Herbert Thomas was born in Glencoe, New South Wales on the 26th April 1891 to parents Josiah See (1845-1926) and Mary Ann Dunn (1854-1924). He was one of seven siblings and four half siblings. His natural brothers Francis James See (1892-1973) George Arthur See (1889-1883) also enlisted in WWI but they lived with their parents.

He married Ellen Elizabeth Jarvis (Nellie) (1894-1951) in 1915 before he went off to war. Nellie then stayed at 34 Eighth Ave, Maylands where her first son, Leonard, was born in 1916.

Herbert enlisted in December 1915. He left Australia in the January the following year, joining the 12th reinforcements 11th Battalion as Corporal.

He was posted to ‘A’ Company when he was transferred to Marseilles in France with the 11th Battalion to the 1st Australian General Hospital into Rouen in April 1917. His last payment in France was made in May 1818. He transferred to England to Sutton Very and in July 1918 he was made Lance Corporal. He returned to Australia in June 1919.

In 1920 his daughter, Yvonne, was born and son, Neil, in 1922. They were living at 104 Broome St, Mt Lawley in 1917. They are not listed as owners so may have rented or boarded.

Before 1925 they had moved south of Perth.

Herbert died on the 6th of July 1982, and he was cremated at Karrakatta and ashes scattered to the wind.

Harry was born in Willesden Middlesex on the 11th of March 1897 was one of five children born to Henry George Nash (1871-1923) and Helen Pratt (1876-1954). His siblings were George William Nash (1898-1918), Albert Frederick (1899-1963), Zillah Ellen (1901-1961) and Leslie Joseph (1906-1971) and they came out as a family to Australia in December 1912. His father had reportedly deserted the family soon after.

Harry’s father was also in WWI Henry George Nash SN 7188. Harry’s brother George William Nash lived with his mother, SN 3598 and was killed in action in the war.

Harry was a baker, and his mother, Helen, lived at 20 Roy St, Mt Lawley.

Harry enlisted aged 19 in July 1915 and joined the C Company 32nd Battalion and left Australia at the end of 1915 on the HMAT Katuna. Mid 1916 he was detached to the 8th Field Ambulance. In September he went to the 15th Australian Field Ambulance, then the 14th Field ambulance with 54th Battalion in August 1916. In January 1917 he was allotted to the 2nd Dental unit at the 8th Feld Ambulance. At the beginning of 1918 he was attached to the 54th Battalion.

He went to hospital in August 1918 from France with furuncles and in March 1919 was admitted to hospital with influenza. He returned to Australia on the 10th of April 1919 and was discharged in July.

In 1922 Harry married Janet Gammell Stirling Theodora Mansell (1899-1998) and they had four children, Ailsa Eleanor (1923-2000), Colin Alfred (1925-1926) Desmond Harry (1929-1929) and Neville Richard (1930-2017). Harry worked as a Mechanic

Before 1925 they had moved to Subiaco.

Harry also enlisted for WWII SN W79544.

He died on the 20th May 1967.

Photo courtesy of Ancestry.

Private Seymour William Augustus Pead was born to parents Alfred Pead (1837-1892) and Ellen Cream (1847-1927) on the 7th June 1873 in Geraldton. He was one of many siblings, mostly born in Geraldton. He was an apprentice butcher at Pead Geraldton.

In 1910 he married Ellen (Nellie) McGrath (1881-1913) who died on the 30th July 1913 in childbirth (their daughter was stillborn).

He enlisted at the end of 1914 with the Light Horse Brigade SN 326 but in January 1915 he was discharged. The record states ‘He is unlikely to become an efficient soldier‘.

He re-enlisted in March 1915. By April 1915 he was made Sergeant with C Company 28th Battalion. He left for the front at the beginning of September the same year and was wounded in action (shell to back) at Gallipoli on the 20th September. He died at sea on the H S Guildford Castle on the 22nd of September 1915 and was buried at sea. No Known Grave- “Known unto God”.

One of his brothers William Alfred Pead (named as W Bead but is Pead (1864-1920) SN 6542 also served in WWI, living with his mother at 560 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley.

Seymour is memorialised at St Johns Anglican Church in Kalgoorlie

Photo courtesy of VWMA