John Skinner was born at Hythe, Kent, England in 1979 to parents William John Ephraim Skinner (1844-1903) and Ann (Annie) Clements (1853-1942). He had 3 brothers who enlisted for WW1; John was the 5th sibling who enlisted. Ernest Clements who was the 9th sibling who also enlisted. Frederick Thomas ( 1891-1916 ) the 10th sibling also enlisted but was not accepted, as unfit for active service due to very large varicose veins in his right leg. James Clements Skinner was the 12th sibling to enlist.

He came to Australia in 1910.

John was employed as a laboratory assistant and he married Annie Colville Harmon on the 27th September 1915 in Mt Lawley, just after he had enlisted.

He left Fremantle on the HMAT Hororata in October 1915 joining the 48th Battalion.

In March 1916 he was admitted to hospital with prthesis (pulmonary tuberculosis) There are notes on his medical NAA file that he was invalided from the British Army in 1905 with prthesis, but did not mention this on enlistment. By mid 1916 he was dangerously ill for over a month and he was returned to Australia from Egypt on “Karoola” as permanently unfit for service and on arrival in Fremantle was admitted to No 8 Australian General Hospital Fremantle in July 1916. He was discharged from hospital in February 1917 to Wooroloo Sanatorium and in July discharged from the Army.

John died at home at 22 Hyde St, Mt Lawley on the 19th October 1920. He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. Ang. OC. 327. (GRM/6).Memorial ID47243197 .

He had one son born on 23rd February 1920, William Jack Skinner who served in the Royal Australian Navy

John is memorialised at the Crawley University  of Western Australia Honour Roll

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Private Ernest Clements Skinner was born 31st August 1884 born in Salford England to parents William John Ephraim Skinner (1844-1903) and Ann (Annie) Clements (1853-1942). Ernest was the 9th sibling who joined his brother John in enlisting for WW1.

Ernest was working as a wire worker and living with his mother at 34 First Avenue Mount Lawley when he enlisted early January 1915 with the 16th Battalion.

He left Australia in February for Gallipoli and was wounded on the 18th May 1915 at the Dardanelles with a gunshot wound to his leg. He was transferred to Malta for treatment and from August until September was treated for dyspepsia, enteritis, a scalded leg, dysentery and jaundice. He was then shipped from Malta to England to hospital before being transferred to Perham Downs. He returned to the 16th Battalion in 1916.

On the 11th April 1917 he was again wounded in action in the field at Rouen with gunshot wounds to his back and ear, transferred from the field hospital to the 1st Southern General hospital in England. He returned to his Battalion September 1917.

A year later in 1918 he was sent to England on leave and within a month was awaiting transport home to Australia for early discharge. He left England on the HMT Burmah on the 14th December and was discharged from the Army in January 1919.

In 1920 he married Gertrude May Good (.1889-1963). He returned to his work as a wire worker and the lived in Chester St, Subiaco.

They had 4 children. The eldest Clements James Skinner (1921-1944) served in WW11 and was killed on the 3 Dec 1944 at Lae, Lae District, Morobe, Papua New Guinea and is buried in the Lae War Memorial Cemetery

Ernest also served in WW11. SN W31690.

The Australian War Memorial has a collection of private correspondence from Ernest to family during his time in WW1.

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Lance Corporal James (Jim) Clement Skinner was the last born of 12 children of parents William John Ephraim Skinner (1844-1903) and Ann (Annie) Clements (1853-1942). He had 3 brothers who enlisted for WW1; John Skinner was the 5th sibling who enlisted. Ernest Clements who was the 9th sibling who also enlisted.

James was born in Salford, Lancashire in 1893. The family moved to Perth and James worked as a salesman for Boans Brothers and was a member of their rifle club, keeping a rifle and ammunition at home. He was rejected on medical grounds at his first attempt at enlistment due to poor dentition and a varicocele. This played on his mind, along with taunts such as, “were the hot water bottles kept for his cold feet”! He became melancholic and depressed and attempted suicide in December, 1915, by shooting himself in the chest, leaving 2 holes in the glass of his bedroom window. A bullet glanced off his rib and he was hospitalised for management but also committed to stand trial.

James enlisted in Geraldton on 14th May, 1916 with a gun shot scar noted. He embarked from Fremantle on A30 Port Macquarie, arriving in Plymouth 12th December, 1916. James joined his unit, 44th Battalion, in February and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 7th October, 1917. Five days later he was killed in action. The Battalion was fighting at Broodseinde Ridge, suffering heavy casualties with only 158 men out of 992 finishing the battle alive and uninjured. His mother, a widow, received a memorial plaque and scroll. She also received a pension. James is honoured at the Menin Gate and Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour.

James’ father and four brothers had military involvements; Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Manchester Regiment, AIF WW1 and WW2.

His nephews also had military involvements; Royal Australian Navy, Royal Airforce, Lancashire Fusiliers and 3rd Armoured Division.

Sydney Alfred Robinson was born on 10th November 1881 at Lambeth, Surrey England to parents Henry Martin Robinson (1821-1911) and Catherine Kate Miney (1843-) Sydney had 2 brothers and a sister who lived in Lambeth.

In the 1911 census in Lambeth Sydney was listed as a clerk. By 1913 he was living and working in Perth as a yardman at the Weld Club in Barrack St, Perth.

Sydney enlisted on the 4th August 1915. He was employed as a Hall Porter at the Weld Club. He was nearly 34 years of age. He is not listed as living at 34 First Ave on any record other than NAA so it can be presumed he was a boarder at the house with the Skinner family while he worked in Western Australia.

Sydney married Margaret Angus Henderson (1890-1926) in 1921 in Lambeth England. They had 2 children Donald Robinson ( 1923) who died the same year he was born and Margaret Christina (1925-1996)

Margaret died in October 1926 in Wandsworth England,

Sydney died at the Mayday Hospital, Mayday Rd, Croydon ,Surrey ,England on the 23rd January 1951.

Edward was born in Melbourne1888 to parents George Atack Guy (1861-1895)and Jane Davison (1857-1945). Widow Jane married Robert Hutson in Perth in 1903. Edward had one brother , Frederick Guy (1884-1969).

Edward was working as a bricklayer for Mr W H Vincent who was a leading contractor of the day and living with his mother at 51 First Ave Mt Lawley.

Edward enlisted on 9th December 1915. He joined the 16th Reinforcements of the Light House Brigade but he was discharged having been absent without leave for 111 days at the end of March 1916.

Edward re-enlisted in November 1916 and embarked on HMAT Persic arriving on 3rd March 1917 in Devonport. He was drafted to the training brigade at Dorrington until the end of April 1917. He joined the 67th Battalion and then was transferred to the 39th before going to France mid April 1918. 3 months later he was admitted to field hospital with influenza and then laryngitis, re-joining the unit in early July 1918.

He was admitted to hospital the 28th August with gas shell poisoning and invalided to England to Graylingwell War Hospital in Chichester. In March 1919 he was granted leave for 3 months to undertake a course in wireless telegraphy in London. By August he was on indefinite leave, returning to Australia and was discharged on the 18th December 1919.

He married Emily Betts (1899-1966) while on leave in London in April 1919.

On his return to Australia , he and Emily moved to live in East Perth, then living at 4 Grant St North Perth where they stayed until after 1954.

By 1963 they were living at 33 Guildford Rd Mt Lawley.

On the 18th January 1966 Edward died and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. Emily died in May 1966 .

photo taken from Australia’s fighting sons of the empire. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-35909257

Louis Wilton Poole was born in North Adelaide on the 12th September 1881 to parents Henry James Poole (1850-1895) and Sarah Amelia (Minnie) Watts ( 1849-1931). Louis had one living sibling Harry Dudley (1879-1956). The family lived in Padding ton England and moved to Australia around 1896 when Louis started in the Public Service as a junior draftsman in 1897. In 1910 the family lived in Fitzroy St Fremantle .

In 1911 Louis married Cara Wheatland ( 1881-1967) and in 1916 lived in Albany Rd Victoria Park with his brother and mother . By this time Louis was an Engineer and qualified Surveyor.

He and Cara had 2 children ; Harry Duncan (1912-2002) and William Louis Cedric (1915-2007).

Louis enlisted at the beginning of January 1917, left Australia on HMAT Euripides in October the same year and joined the Engineer Officers Training School.

In April 1918 he joined (as a Sapper) the Australian General Base Depot at Rouelles, France.

On the 21st May 1918 he was killed in action in the field.

He is buried at Borre Borre Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord Pas de Calais, France.

He is memorialised on memorials in Mt Lawley Inglewood and West Perth Public Works Memorial

His son Harry moved to England and married in 1937 and William stayed in Perth marrying in 1939.

Cara remained living at 70 First Ave and died in July 1967. Her ashes are scattered at Karrakatta Cemetery.

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Alan Douglas “Çhap” Milne was one of a twin born in Fremantle on the 12th December 1892 to John Munro Milne ( 1856-1932) and Margaret Ann Mills (1855-1909). He was one of 7 siblings .His twin was Neil Douglas “Chum” Milne (1892-1979 ) who also enlisted but was rejected due to defective eyesight.

Alan’s eldest sister Jean Rose (1882-1971) married Lieutenant Robert Ambrose Dobson in 1907 and when the war started they moved into Robert’s home in First Ave.

When Alan enlisted ,he was living with his father at the Dobson house, having left his position as a Station manager in the Gascoyne in Western Australia. He enlisted twice, firstly on 7th May 1915 but was rejected because he had haemorrhoids. He was accepted on his next enlistment on 18th June 1915.

He joined the 10th Light Horse Reinforcements and attended the Non Commissioned Officers course in December 1916 after being promoted to Lance Corporal. In February the next year he was made Temporary Corporal, then promoted to Corporal.

In April 1917he had a hospital stay due to piles.

In June 1917 he attended the School of Instruction and then the isolation camp at Moascar in Egypt. A couple of months later he re-joined the 10th Light Horse Reinforcements.

2 years later he was granted leave for nearly 2 months to attend London Wool Exchange and the Shearing School.

He returned to Australia on the Ypiranga in November 1919 being discharged early January 1920.

He returned to the Gascoyne region, and married Grace Florence Mary Collins in 1922 (1896-1978). In 1923 they lived in Carnarvon and then in Kalgoorlie in the mid 1930’s.

They had 4 sons born in Carnarvon between 1923 and 1929. Three of them went into WW11; Douglas Bertram Milne (1923-2008), Kenneth Alan Milne ( 1924-2003) and Richard Montagne “Dick ” Milne ( 1926-1994). The younger son Ambrose John “Amby” Milne born 1929, died in 1940 in Mullewa.

Alan’s twin brother Neil Douglas Milne married Ivy May Mitchell (1892-1988) in 1920 and their son Robert Ambrose Milne (1922-1945) joined the Airforce as a Flight Lieutenant and was killed in an aircraft accident near Mildura, Victoria on the 6 February 1945.

Alan died on 30 May1969 and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

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Robert Ambrose Dobson was born on the 12th December 1883 in Napier ,New Zealand and was one of 10 children born to Robert Dobson (1852-1893) and Clara Potts ( 1855-1903).

Robert served in the Boer war in 1902 with the New Zealand Forces at the age of 19, SN 5723 and continued serving for 7 months in the 8th New Zealand Regiment.

He arrived in Australia shortly afterwards at the age of 21 and became an auctioneer and stock broker with Elder Smith & Co.

He married Jean Rose Milne in 1907, daughter of Alan Douglas Milne and they all first lived at 116 Brown St Perth.

By 1914 Robert had purchased the house at 83 First Ave and they moved there .

He enlisted on the 9th March 1916 and embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A28 Miltiades on 29 January 1917 with the 44th Battalion. On arrival he attended training at Fovant on 28 March 1917 and more at School of Musketry, Tidworth, 30 May-21 June 1917 . He left for France,18 October 1917. He was promoted on 26 October 1917 to Lieutenant . He went on leave to Paris in March 1918 and re-joined his unit, 2 April 1918.

He was killed in action, 24 April 1918. His NAA reports state that he was buried at the Bonnay Military Cemetery by Rev. E O Phillips on the same day.
He is remembered on the Adelaide Elder Smith & Co WW1 memorial and the Mount Lawley Inglewood memorial and in Kings Park Perth.

His wife Jean moved from the area by 1920 and into West Perth ( Altona St in 1937) and 262 St Georges Terrace in 1951.

She died 26 September 1971 aged 89.

Photo of plaque dedicated by Elder Smith.

Harold Sydney Schryver was born in 1892 to parents Sylvester Francis Schryver and Caroline Hedges . SIX boys were born. One died the year he was born. Three brothers joined their stepbrothers Frank (1887-1965) and William Francis and enlisted in the Great War . Lester Schryver ( 1895-) andCharles Henry Schryver ( 1898-1966)

Harold enlisted in Perth on the 13 th July 1915. He had been employed as a a painter living at home with his step siblings and other siblings.

He joined the British Expeditionary Forces in the 48th battalion on arriving oversees in the beginning of 1916, promoted to Corporal before proceeding to the field in France.

He was killed in action on the 6th August 1916 in the field.

Most of his personal effects were sent to his mother ( his father had died at the beginning on 1916). Probate went through at the end of 1916 but here was still a query about his pay book and money, which his mother followed up in writing. His mother had 4 boys in the war and wrote a few times to the authorities.

He has No known grave-“Known Unto God and memorials at Villiers-Bretonneux Memorial Picardie France.

He is memorialised at the Inglewood Mount Lawley War Memorial.

Lester Schryver was born on the 11th of April 1895 to parents Sylvester Francis Schryver and Caroline Hedges . Six boys were born. One died the year he was born. Three brothers joined their stepbrother Frank (1887-1965) and enlisted in the Great War .Harold Sydney Schryver(1892-1916)) and Charles Andrew Schryver ( 1898-1966).

Lester, aged 20, lived at home with his family and worked as a French polisher before he joined the Army on the 27th September 1915. He embarked from Australia in January 1916

He joined the 48th Battalion in France. In July 1916 he was court martialled for neglect to the prejudice of good order and military discipline whilst on active duty. He was found guilty and sentenced to 2 years in prison. The sentence was suspended . In November he was charged again for leaving his post.

He was wounded in the field on 16th October the same year with a gunshot wound to his arms and back and sent to England for treatment.

After he returned to active duty, more offences occurred in the field: not returning from his furlough; not turning up for duty and so on through out 1917. The last few months of the year he also was admitted to hospital with concerns over the old gun shot wound.

At the beginning of 1918 he was admitted to hospital for a self inflicted gunshot wound, and not long after he was court martialled for desertion for 2 months from May that year.

On October 1918 he was sentenced to 10 year ‘s imprisonment with a release date of 2026. In December he was admitted to No 11 Military Prison to start his sentence but sent to Portland Prison under escort England at the beginning of 1919.

He was returned to Australia a few months later to complete his prison sentence.

He was discharged from the Army in October 1919 and his war medals were automatically forfeited.

He died on the 30th of May 1981 and was cremated at Karrakatta Cemetery and his ashes were scattered.

photo courtesy of Faithe Jones VWMA

Charles Henry Schryver was born on 10th of February 1898 to parents Sylvester Francis Schryver and Caroline Hedges .

Charles Henry enlisted on 15th February 1916 and because his profession was that as a Dental Mechanic, he joined as a Private in the Dental Corps.

His mother wrote to the Army (September 1916- letters on NAA file) asking that Charles stay at the Belmont camp until he turned 19. She said ‘3 of my sons who were eligible have enlisted, 2 are fighting in France and one has been killed on the 6th August and to add to my trouble, my husband died in January. She did ask that her son not be told she had written. Another letter in October was sent to the Army;I wish to cancel my request my son from leaving the country. He is very disappointed in my making this request. I now consent for him to leave for the front on the first available opportunity”

Charles left Fremantle on the Militiades in January 1917, and was sent to France after training at Codford, England.

He was attached for duty with the 13th Australian Field Ambulance.

In October 1918 he was admitted to hospital with a gun shot wound to his right hand and was invalided to England.

He returned to Australia on the Konigan Louise in December 1918.

Charles married Beryl Louise Dalton Rocke ( 1902-1972) in 1926 and they lived firstly in 34 Third Ave where Charles continued his employment as a Dental Technician. They later moved to 31 Harcourt Street.

They had one son born in 1930.

Charles joined the Royal Australian Air Force in WW11 . SN 38173

He died on the 3rd September 1966 and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

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George Louie Mignot aka George Elouis Alexandria Eppedause Mignon has 2 NAA files but is the same man.

George was born in Melbourne Victoria in 1891. The family moved to Perth before 1897. He was one of 3 siblings born to parents George Victor Mignot ( 1858-1906) and Elsie Vivienne Ethel May Nutt ( 1872-1951).

George married Agnes in 1914 and they had twin girls in 1915. His wife Agnes Wilson Mignot was boarding at the home of the Schryver family at 89 First Ave.

George is on the list of Anzacs in Mount Lawley because when he enrolled in July 1915, working as a motor mechanic.

Shortly after, he enlisted in Perth, joined the 12th Reinforcements and was promoted to Provisional Corporal. He absented himself from the Army in Egypt around the 20th October the same year and his whereabouts were unknown. After enquiries he was discharged in March 1919 and all medals forfeited .

According to enquires made by the Army before his discharge , Mrs Mignot had moved from 89 First Ave around 9 months after George had embarked and her whereabouts were unknown, but other enquires made to George’s mother Mrs Cook ( who now remarried and living in Fremantle) revealed that she had moved to Albury NSW.

After that enquiries revealed that George’s surname was actually Mignon.

In the meantime George had enlisted in Albury NSW in May 1916 as George Elouis Alexandria Eppedause Mignon. He was working as a painter and living with his wife Agnes Mignon.

After training he left Melbourne on the A20 Hororata with the 6th Battalion. At sea he was promoted and then reverted to previous rank after an offence. He arrived in England for training in January 1917 at Durrington and was charged then with offences relating to absences.

He was sent to France in April 1917, and was wounded accidentally in July which was followed by a Court of Inquiry in August for disciplinary offences and leave of absence. In September he was still absent and was court martialled in absentia. His wife Agnes was also looking for him in 1917.

George remarried in April 1918 ( although he was not divorced ) Violet Hugene Knight (1895-1989) in England. They had a son born in March 1918, and more children after 1920.

In October 1918 (presumably under arrest) he went to visit his “wife “in London and escaped again.

In 1919 Agnes married William Joseph Frawley (1979-1961) and they had 4 children all born in Albury, Victoria.

In early 1920 George was discharged for desertion and all medals forfeited.

He and Violet travelled to and fro New York and England in 1921 . He was a working as a merchant and patented international objects, one being a hairdressing tool and in 1932 another connected to vanity cases. On this patent he was using the name George Elvis Mignot.

By 1935 he was travelling with his 3rd “wife” Winifred Ivy Paul (1910-2003). They too travelled between Australia and England, coming back in 1949 to run an orchard in Canning, Western Australia.

In 1954 they were living at 20 Field St Mt Lawley.

In 1958 they moved to Mornington, Victoria , leaving in 1960 to return to England for a few months , retuning to Brisbane and then to South Australia.

He died on the 6th June 1966 and was buried in Centennial Park Cemetery ,Pasadena, Mitcham City, South Australia, Australia. His grave stone names him as George Elvis Mignon. Winifred is also buried there.

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Hugh Lionel Fowler was born on the 5th of October 1891 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England to parents Henry Silas (1855-) and Rosetta Stone ( 1858-1942). He had one brother Russell Aubrey (1888-1971). 2nd Lt Hugh Lionel Fowler lived at 95 First Ave, Mt Lawley moved to Perth, living with his mother and brother at 15 Roy St Mt Lawley until they moved to First Ave around 1916.

Both brothers were school teachers.

Hugh enlisted in August 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 44th Battalion and left Australia on HMAT A29 Suevic, arriving in Plymouth in July 1916.

He attended the school of Instruction. He was wounded with a mild bullet wound end of July 1916 and sent to the Military Hospital at Fargo. After discharge he was sent to France in November the same year. He was wounded again in mid 1917 with bullets wounds to his right temple and right thigh, admitted to London General hospital Wandsworth. He was discharged 2 months later to Perham Downs to the regiment of Supply and Lists.

In December 1917 he returned to Rouelles in France to his unit.

He was promoted to Captain in the beginning of January 1918. In that October , he was wounded again in the field with wounds to his right hip and groin. he was returned to England for hospital treatment. On recovery he was granted leave to attend a non military course of lectures in character psychology and psyche analysis at the University College London.

He returned to Australia on the SS Ypiranga in November 1919 and his appointment was terminated in May 1920.

He married Winfred Vicary Finch ( 1898-1968) in April 1922 and they had 3 children.

Hugh continued further studies working as a University lecturer with degrees MA , PhD, FBPsS ,and Dip Ed. He was the first local graduate in psychology in 1931 and in 1938 he came an associate professor in the department of psychology in WA.

He enlisted for WW11 SN V148157 .His 2 war records are saved together.

In 1940 the family was living in Stanley St, Nedlands.

Hugh died on 26th May 1946 at Lucknow Hospital Claremont. He is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery Memorial ID89292821.  He is memorialised at the Crawley University of Western Australia Honour Roll

Corporal James Edwin Aylett was born on 12th April 1889 in Richmond, Victoria to parents James Aylett (1853-1929) and Caroline Florence Davidson (1863-1940). James was the 3rd eldest of 14 siblings although 2 died within their first year of birth. One brother Frank Thomas Lewis Aylett (1891-1917) also served in WW1, but died in France.

Around 1897 the family moved to Bunbury Western Australia from Victoria where most of the younger siblings were born and James attended school, then worked as a grocer.

The family moved to 116 Monger St Leederville Perth around 1913, which later was renamed 112 Northwood St Leederville. They were still living there in the early 1920’s.

James enlisted January 1916 and left Australia on HMAT Suevic arriving 4 months later in England where he attended training school at Durrington. Promoted to Corporal he undertook courses in musketry and the Lewis gun and was attached as Permanent Cadre of the 10th Training Battalion at Tidworth.

In March 1918 he went to France and was wounded in action in the field with a severe gunshot wound to the left forearm. He was shipped to England and returned to Australia on HMAT Burmah in December 1918. He was still in the 8th Australian General Hospital Fremantle under treatment until discharge at the end of 1920.

James purchased the vacant block at 98 First Ave on 22 September 1919 with the help of a loan to returned soldiers and the house was approved to be built in 1922.

On the April 1921, he married Grace Lillian Slater (1894-1987) and they had 2 daughters.

They remained living in the house until 1966.

He died of natural causes, Lynwood, Western Australia, 2 October 1980, aged 91 years and is memorialised on the York District Great War Honour board.

Grace died on the 7th Dec 1987 at the age of 93 and is buried next to her husband.

Joseph Augustus Thompson was born in Adelaide, South Australia on the 16th September 1886 to parents Samuel French Thompson (1855-1918) and Alice Bayliss (1858-1919). He was one of 2 siblings; a brother Arthur Thompson( 1888-1944) and a sister who died shortly after birth.

The family had moved from Adelaide to Perth in the early 1900’s and in 1910 Joseph was living at 39 Raglan Rd North Perth.

In 1912 he married Catherine Owens (1889-1929) and they were living in 104 First Ave in 1913. They had 2 children Valmai in 1914 and Owen in 1922.

Joseph enlisted in June 1916 with the 73rd Depot and left Fremantle in October 1916, arriving at Plymouth 2 months later. He went to Durrington with the 11th Training Battalion. He was admitted to Fargo Military hospital sick in February 1917 and when discharged was attached for duty at the 43 rd Battalion Headquarters in Tidworth.

He returned to Australia on the SS Port Darwin for discharge with chronic bronchitis and an inguinal hernia. He was discharged in March 1918 ‘permanently unfit for general service or home service.

He returned home to family life. In August 1918 Joseph’s father Samuel died in a motor accident and his mother Alice died in Adelaide in September 1919.

Joseph died in Stirling hospital Perth in 1922. THOMPSON On October 17, at Stirling Hospital, Perth, Joseph Augustus, dearly loved husband of Catherine, fond daddy of Valmai and baby Owen, brother of Arthur, aged 36 years. A patient sufferer at rest.

He was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery Perth .

In September 1929 Catherine died suddenly in Adelaide .

His brother Arthur also enlisted in WW1 and lived in Subiaco with his wife Adelaide.

Henry Charles Harris was born in Warnambool , Victoria in 1877 to parents William John Harris (1848-1936) and Annie Davidson (1852-1923). He was the 3rd eldest of 7 living siblings.

All his family lived in the Eastern States.

When he enlisted, he was staying in First Ave Mt Lawley, but the house number is unknown so it can be assumed he was boarding.

In 1910 he is listed as living in Murray St as a commission agent.

He was aged 36 at enlistment and had been working as a Stockman.

He joined the 10th Light Horse Regiment in November 1915. He was soon absent without leave and arrested a month later and detained for 28 days in February 1916 .

His war record has many hospital admissions as well as absences of leave and charges of drunken behaviour .

He returned to Australia on the Oxfordshire and was discharged from the army in August 1919.

After the war he was boarding at 8 Beaufort St Perth with a Mrs Rosa Meek and working as a farmhand. He was still living there in 1937 .

In 1938 he was charged for threatening behaviour towards his landlord and by 1943 he was living at the Old Mens Home in Nedlands.

He died on the 7 January 1954 in Perth and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery.

Stanley Herbert Steere was born in 1898 in Bunbury Western Australia to Parents Frederick Walter Steere (1868-1938) and Annie Wells (1868-1940). He was the 3rd eldest of 8 siblings.

When he enlisted, he was staying in First Ave Mt Lawley, but the house number is unknown so it can be assumed he was boarding, having left Bunbury.

Stanley enlisted in March 1916 with the 11th Reinforcements of the 28th Battalion. He left Alexandria for France in May 1916 to join the Britsh Expeditionary Forces .

In August he was wounded in the field with a gunshot wound to the hand, was treated at hospital in Bologne and returned to the field in September. In October he was injured again with a severe gunshot wound to the buttock and sent to England for treatment at the War Hospital in Northampton. In February 1917 he was given furlough and then reported to Perham Downs.

In March 1917 he transferred to the 70th, then proceeded to France in October the same year.

On the 28th October 1817 he was killed in the field.

He is buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium .

The family received the parcel of his effects in May 1918 His identity disc was sent to his father in 1921. By this time his father had moved to Dudinin Western Australia. Photos of his grave in Belgium were sent to the family in October 1921.

He is memorialised on many memorials including one in Dudinin.

He had 2 brothers who served in WW11; Leading Aircraftman Sydney George Steere (1901-1989) SN 38558 and Captain Evelyn Keith Steere ( 1907-1989) WX 11114.