Private Norman Thomas Shepherd was born on the 19th August 1894 in Bendigo, Victoria.

He was the youngest of 11 children born to James Shepherd (1844-1896) and Mary Ann Bryant (1884-1931).

He may have been boarding at 3 Clifton Crescent, Mt Lawley with Charles Stoneham in 1914 when he enlisted, as his mother was living in Carlton, Victoria.

It is unclear where else he may have stayed but his memorial plaque was sent to Clifton Crescent. He was just 20 years old and working as an Assayer.

He joined the 11th Infantry Battalion Reinforcements as a Private and went to Gallipoli with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces in March 1915. In June 1915 he was wounded in the field, placed on the hospital ship HMHS Sicilia, died from his wounds on the 15th June and was buried at sea by the Chaplain on board.

He is listed on the Lone Pine Memorial in Turkey. There was a notice in the Daily News Perth on the 5th July 1915

His mother received a military pension of 57 pounds per annum as from 25th August 1915.

Photo courtesy of the State Library W.A.

Lance Corporal Edwin Burton Petherick Grace (Ted) was born in Perth on the 24th April 1899 to parents Sidney John Grace (1867-1960) and Mabel Agnes nee North (1876-1952). Edwin had two brothers: Roy William Grace (1904-) and John Noel Abercrombie Grace who also enlisted in WWI as a Sapper in the 6^th Tunnelling Company.

Edwin was a university student when he enlisted in March 1918, later to become an Engineer. His father worked at the Wellington Mills, south of Perth and the family lived in Clifton Crescent.

Edwin left Albany in May 1918 on the SS Port Darwin, allotted to the Reinforcements 28th Battalion as Private. He went to the 5th Training Battalion at Fouvant, England, and in October he left for France. On arrival he was appointed to Lance Corporal.

At the beginning of February, he was demobilised and returned to Australia. He returned to the family home in Clifton Crescent.

In 1926 he married Vera Constance (nee Douglas) (1898-1980). They had a son David Edwin Grace (1928-2004) who was born in Kalgoorlie where Edwin was District Engineer. The family travelled around with Edwin’s employment as a District Engineer with Main Roads Department of Western Australia.

In the 1930’s they purchased 134 Second Ave, Mt Lawley and stayed there until 1962 when they moved to 35 Holmfirth St, Menora. At this time Edwin’s brother Roy and wife Amy lived at 7 Carnarvon Crescent.

Edwin died on the 17th July 1979, and was cremated at Karrakatta Cemetery.

He is on the Perth Modern School Memorial of Anzac Soldiers.

Photo courtesy of Ancestry.

Chaplain David Issac Freedman was born on the 17th April 1874 to parents Moses Freedman (1845-1902) and Esther Freedman (1845-1914).

He was one of four children: a sister Beatrice, the eldest, brothers Louis (1878) and Emmanuel (1880), also born in Hungary. The family migrated to England in 1891. In February 1897 David left London for Australia. He was 26 and already ordained as a Rabbi in the Jewish Orthodox faith. He married Anne Florence Cohen (1881-1944) in 1897 in Perth. They had three sons: Harry (1900-1982), Claude (1901-1986) and Hedley John (1908-1979).

On the 1st October 1915 Freedman was appointed as a chaplain in the Australian Imperial Force, and he served briefly on Gallipoli and in Egypt and France. In February 1916 the British War Office appointed him Chaplain to all Jewish men in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. In France, for two years he took no leave and in December 1917 was mentioned in dispatches. In 1918 he returned to Perth at the end of his war appointment.

By 1920 the family was already living at 21 Clifton Crescent, Mt Lawley. In 1949 family were still living in the house listed under the second eldest child, Claude.

Rabbi Freedman lived a full and busy life, and he died at the age of 62 on 24th June 1939 from a coronary occlusion.

He is buried in the Jewish section at Karrakatta Cemetery.

Photo courtesy VWMA .

Staff Sergeant Samuel Albert Shineberg was born in Carlton, Victoria on the 25th May 1899 to parents Solomon Shineberg (1864-1929) and Rebeca Goldberg (1865-1940). The family arrived from England around 1890. He was one of six children, with four sisters and one brother. His elder brother Jacob also served in WWI. Samuel was employed as a clerk when he enlisted in July 1918.

He travelled to Egypt on the Port Sydney, leaving Albany in August 1918 arriving Suez in September. He was given a position as a Clerical Clerk in the Australian Headquarters in Egypt. He was admitted to hospital three times, with tonsillitis, sinusitis and rhinitis, and was discharged in April 1919 and returned to Australia on the HT Karoa as medically unfit.

His father, Solomon, had moved over to Victoria around 1918 and soon Samuel joined him. In 1928 he married Deborah Lash (1903-1977) in Sydney and remained living there until his death on the 25th May 1970.

He is buried in the Rookwood Cemetery, the Jewish section 21, grave 688.

Staff Sergeant Jacob Shineberg was born in Glebe Sydney on the 3rd August 1894 to parents Solomon Shineberg (1864-1929) and Rebecca Goldberg (1865-1940). The family arrived from England around 1890. He was one of six children, with four sisters and one younger brother, Samuel Albert, who also served in WWI.

Jacob was employed as a Chemist when he enlisted in December 1917, working at the No 8 Australian General Hospital in Fremantle.

He joined the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) and he didn’t embark overseas but he remained with the Army at Blackboy Hill. As such he is not recognised on the Virtual War Museum of Australia because he didn’t actually go to war. But for this website he enlisted and lived in Mount Lawley.

He had three admissions to hospital for tonsillitis, and rheumatism in shoulders, fingers and right knee, returning to duty at the No 8 Australian General Hospital until it was recommended that he be discharged as permanently unfit.

He returned to work to the Hospital in Fremantle and was still there in the mid 1920’s until he moved to Sydney around 1930, where he took up another position as Chemist in Darlinghurst.

In 1942 in Sydney, he married Leah Freida Levy (1907-1991).

Jacob died on the 4th October 1954 and is buried in the Rookwood Cemetery Jewish section 14, row 27.

Private Harry Wineberg was born In Warsaw near Poland on the 20th September 1880 to parents Abraham David Wineberg and Peary Bartinaman. He had one brother Woolf Wineberg (1867-1937) and sister-in-law Minnie Levy (born 1882). Woolf and Minnie married in 1901, and Harry, Woolf and Minnie lived in Geraldton at that time. Both men were jewellers.

Harry married Sara Shineberg (1888-1947) in 1913. Her parents were Solomon and Rebecca Shineberg who lived at 27 Clifton Crescent.

Harry enlisted on the 10th March 1916 and taken on as a Private with the 16/17th Reinforcements in May 1916.

On the 10th of August 1916 he was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to the perineum. He was taken on the HS Dieppe to England, also suffering shell shock. This took a long time to heal, with abscesses and breaking down until in nearly a year later he had another operation.

He returned to Australia in January 1918 on the HT Port Darwin for a change and discharged at the end of March 1918.

He and Sara had had one child in 1913, Charles David (1913-1978), and another son, Leslie Bertram in 1922.

In 1921 he is listed as being in a War Service home, but his repatriation records are not accessible.

In 1922 both Harry and his brother Woolf are listed with the following jobs: Harry running a small goods business at 145 James St, Perth, and Woolf as a fruiterer and confectioner in Barrack St, Perth. Woolf had married and he and his wife were living at 145 Chelmsford Rd, Mt Lawley.

In 1930, Harry and family moved to Bondi Junction, Sydney NSW.

Harry died there and was buried in the Rookwood Cemetery, Jewish section 13, row 3. The inscription on the grave is “husband of Sara, father of Charles & Leslie (inscribed on plaque “from grandchildren”)

Lieutenant Edmund Apperley Wintle was born in Arrah, Bengal, India on the 15th December 1890. His parents were Henry Edmund (1851-1921) and Eleanor Sophia (nee Shaw) (1851-1931). Edmund was the eighth born of nine children.

The family left India in 1908, arriving in Fremantle in 1909. The family moved around a bit but lived in Carr and Wright St, before moving to the corner of Clifton and Regent St, Mt Lawley.

Edmund had two older brothers who also enlisted in WWI: Henry Edmund Charles Campbell Wintle (1877-1954) and Cecil Taaffee Wintle (1888-1959).

He enlisted in March 1915 as a Private with the C Company 24th Battalion, transferring to the 2nd Australian Divisional Training. In November he was promoted to Corporal with the Australian Army Service Corps, 5th Machine Gun Battalion. At the end of 1916 in France, he was admitted to hospital sick in Havre, then sick again on leave in England and admitted to Southall Hospital at the beginning of 1917. He returned to his unit but in August he was detached to the 1st Anzac Corps School. In October he was invited join the cadet battalion course in England. In June 1918 he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant to the Machine Gun Corps Reinforcements. In the beginning of 1919, he strained and crushed his ankle and was in and out of hospital for a few months before he was discharged to Headquarters. He returned to Australia in November 1919 and was discharged from the Army four months later in 1920.

He returned to his family home. In the 1930’s he was working in Beverley as a farm worker, then in the 1940’s he was an Army Clothing Inspector.

He didn’t marry and died in 1963 and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

Photo courtesy of the soldiers of Barrack St.

Henry Edmund Charles Campbell Wintle was born in Bengal, India on the 20th January 1877. His parents were Henry Edmund (1851-1921) and Eleanor Sophia (nee Shaw) (1851-1931). Henry was the eldest born of nine children.

The family left India in 1908, arriving in Fremantle in 1909. The family moved around a bit but lived in Carr and Wright St, before moving to the Corner of Clifton and Regent St, Mt Lawley.

Henry married Mary Alice McAlin in Tamil Nadu India in 1904, They had one child.

Henry had served in the South African war in 1900-1902, then the Indian Imperial Service in Tibet 1904-1909. He was an Accountant and worked on the Railways in India.

He enlisted in July 1918 from Narrogin, where he working as a clerk in the Districts Superintendent’s office at the Narrogin Railways depot. He joined the Railway Corps .He embarked on the HMAT Zealandia to England and proceeded to France in December 1918. He became seriously ill in February 1919 with bronchitis and influenza and was transferred to England from hospital in Harfleur, France.

He requested to be discharged in England as he had been offered a three-year appointment with an Import and Export merchants in West Africa, where he was able to move with his wife. This would give him monetary gain and he could return to Australia later.

In 1930’s he was in the Northern Territory before returning to Western Australia, and was in the State Sanatorium Ward 4 in Wooroloo in the mid 1940’s.

He died at Hollywood Hospital on the 20th September 1954 and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.