Three Anzac soldiers lived in Cantle Street, Mount Lawley.
All three were members of the Hough family who lived at 11 Cantle St.
Leonard Irwin Hough, enlisted in 1914 and was the elder son of Christopher James (1862-1914) and Isabella Ann Hough (1965-1947) of Mt Lawley, Western Australia. The younger son and third sibling, Christopher Leslie Hough enlisted in 1915, whilst his older sister, Staff Nurse Edith Evelyn Hough served with the Australian Army Nursing Service from 1917. Although addresses changed on army paperwork, it would appear the family moved at least twice after Christopher (father) died in 1914 and settled at Cantle St around 1917. There were six siblings: Mabel Luisa (1887-1932), Leonard Irwin (1889-1980), Christopher Leslie (1891-1916), Roderick Owen (b 1893), Edith Evelyn (1894-1972) and Mena Hough (1896-1956).
Mrs Hough remained living in Cantle Street until after 1923.
Driver Leonard Irwin Hough lived at 11 Cantle St, Mt Lawley. SN 1342.
Leonard Irwin Hough was born in Busselton on the 31st September 1889 and enlisted from his job as an Engine Fireman to join the WWi forces in October 1914.
He left Australia in the SS Ajana on 31st December 1914 for Egypt. After training he joined the 13th Field Artillery Brigade on 15th November 1914.
He went to France in June 1916 but was frequently sick and hospitalised between September and November 1916 when he returned to England on the Hospital Ship, St David, with chronic rheumatism.
After 656 days of illness, he was returned in May 1917 to Australia as medically unfit with the added problem of a pre-war amputated toe and mutilation of his right foot and an old fracture in his thigh.
He registered for home service on return to Perth to Cantle St and was discharged from the AIF in September 1918.
In 1919 he married Margaret May Bennett (1890-1965) and they moved out of Mt Lawley to Fremantle where Leonard worked as a storeman.
Leonard enlisted for home service again at the outbreak of WWII W242933.
He died in Perth in 1980.
Photo courtesy Faithe Jones VWMA
Private Christopher Leslie Hough lived at 11 Cantle St, Mt Lawley. SN 1246
Christopher Leslie was born in 1891 in Busselton and was the second son in the Hough family.
He enlisted in June 1915, when he was living with his mother and working as a Commercial Traveller.
He joined the 2nd Anzac Light Horse Regiment in November 1916 and travelled to Egypt.
On arrival at the end of November, he was taken to hospital in Alexandria with mumps and in January 1916, he was transferred to Convalescent Camp. At the end of January, he re-joined his unit and was sent to France in June.
On the 8th August 1916 he was killed in action in the field at Pozières, Somme, Picardie, France.
He is buried in the Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Photo courtesy Bruno Lefebvre at VWMA.
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Staff Nurse Edith Evelyn Hough lived at 11 Cantle St, Mount Lawley
Edith Evelyn was the second daughter Christopher James (1862-1914) and Isabella Ann Hough (1965-1947).
She joined the AIF, Australian Army Nursing Unit (AANS) as a Staff Nurse in November 1917. She had previously worked as a certified nurse.
Edith Evelyn left Australia by ship from Canberra at the end of 1917 to work at No 14 Australian General Hospital at Port Said. In January 1919, she left for Southampton and was assigned to the 1st Australian General Hospital.
Edith Evelyn married Captain Otto Ludwig Vetter, an Australian serving with the Royal Air Force, in London on the 16th January 1919.
She resigned from the service because of her marriage and returned to Perth Australia settling in South Perth. Her husband ran Vetter and Co, Automobile Engineers at 50-56 Murray St, Perth.
They had two children, a daughter and a son. Their son, Flight Sergeant John Irwin Vetter of No 42 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, died as a prisoner of war in Java in February 1945.
Edith died in August 1972.
Photo courtesy of Faithe Jones VWMA