Tuesday, November 11, 2014
We shall remember them - not only on Rememberance Day - we remember them often.
WW1 - Family who served
Australia Overseas
for Pennie & David's
Grandchildren
Remembrance Day 11/11/2014
Frank Amphlett (3rd Great
Uncle)
D.O.B. 21/12/1876
Embarked
1st May 1916 from Sydney on ‘Benalla’ (40 years old)
Disembarked
9th July 1916 at Plymouth, EnglandMarried Ella Rose Cadell Ryrie in London 1916
Captain - 35th Battalion
Proceeded to France on 21/11/1916
Passchendaele on 12/10/1917
Killed on the first day of Action-20/10/1917 (41 years)
No body
was found, presumed blown up and buried by another Battalion.
Frank
Amphlett's name is on the Menin Gate at Ypres, Belgium.
(David never met his Great Uncle Frank.)
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William Mclean Amphlett (3rd
Great Uncle)
(no photos
available)
D.O.B.1881
New Zealand
Embarked
from Australia 'Ajana A31'
13/5/1915 (34 years old)Captain - Dental Surgeon - 5 Field Ambulance - (May-June 1915)
Arrived Gallipoli, Turkey
Returned to Australia May 1919
Died 1960 Mittagong, Australia
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Millicent Sylvia Armstrong (3rd Great Aunt)
Millicent
was touring England when WW1 started.
Enlisted
London 1916 - Scottish Women's Hospital - (28 years old)Served in Hospital Auxiliaire 301 in Northern France.
Awarded the Croix de Guerre
Returned to Australia on board the 'Osterley' in May 1919
Died in Goulburn 18/11/1973 (85 years old)
(Pennie
knew Millsie Armstrong from 'Wollogorang', she was very tall and elegant.)
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Harold Mackay Bishop (3rd Cousin)
Embarked
from Australia 'Euripides' 20/10/1914 (20 years old)
Second
Lieutenant - 3rd Battalion A.I.F
Killed in
Action. 'In the Field' France. 5/11/1916 (22 years old)
Buried in
Bancourt British Cemetery, 2 ¾ miles SS.SW of Bapaume. France.
(Pennie never met her cousin Harold.)
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Raymond Charles Bishop (3rd Cousin)
D.O.B. 1895Embarked from Australia for Alexandria - 25/2/1916 (21 years)
Private - 55th Battalion A.I.F.
Embarked from Alexandria for France - 29/5/1916
Reported Missing & Killed in Action - 20/7/1916 (21 years old)
Body found and identified using June Rosemary Rodd's DNA in 2010.
Buried at Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery, Fromelles. France. July 2010.
(Pennie never met her cousin Ray.)
(T.E.A.M.G. were at the Ceremony in Fromelles.)
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Harrie Cleveland Cobcroft (2nd Great Grandfather)
D.O.B. 6/7/1897
Embarked from Melbourne,
Australia 'Aeneas' 2/10/1916 (19 years old)
Disembarked Plymouth,
England 19/11/1916
Gunner 2nd Battery, 1st
Australian Field Artillery Brigade.
Awarded the Military
Medal and then a Bar to Military Medal.
For... 'Bravery and
devotion to duty during the operation at Mont de Merris, near Strazeele on the
night of 2nd/3rd of June, 1918.
'Gunner Cobcroft
accompanied the F.O.O. during the attack and in spite of the heavy shelling he
performed valuable work mending telephone wires and maintaining communication
with forward Wireless Station from which information regarding the attack was
being passed to Brigades.'
Later in
1918 Harrie was awarded a Bar to the Military Medal for a similar action.
Embarked
for Australia 'Ormonde' 16/6/1919
Died
22/1/1955 Strathfield, Sydney (58
years old)
(Pennie
remembers her Grandfather Harrie with a lot of love, he loved to do magic and not so magic tricks for us.)
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Alexander William Griffiths (3rd Great Grandfather)
(waiting for more information)
Service
Number: 1950
Rank: PrivateRoll title: 13 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 8 Reinforcements (December 1914 - August 1915)
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of embarkation: 13 April 1915
Place of embarkation: Sydney
Ship embarked on: HMAT Kyarra A55
(David remembers his Grandfather as a quiet man.)
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James Hadden Hogarth (3rd Great Uncle by marriage)
Enlisted
Sydney 23/6/1917 (32 years old)
Embarked
Sydney for England on board 'Runic' 23/3/191829/6/1918 Proceeded to France.
Private B Company, Driver
On duty with the War Graves Services Villers Brettonneux, France.
Embarked for Australia 'Baradine' 1922
Last Digger home.
Died Windsor, NSW 24/5/1953
(Photo is of Jim Hogarth speaking to King George V in France)
(Pennie
remembers Uncle Jim who was married to Great Aunt Carol and lived at 'Glenroy', Windsor. He grew vegetables, and drove a funny little car with a Dicky seat that I loved sitting in.)
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Samuel Alexander Long (3rd Great Grandfather)
D.O.B.
31/8/1866
Boer War
29/4/1902 (21 years old)
Embarked
Sydney 'Euripides' 2/11/1915 (49 years old)
Arrived
Suez 29/11/1915
Captain
& Adjutant Quarter Master Transport Officer
Embarked
for Australia on 'Runic' 14/5/1916
Died in
Sydney 1/6/1940 (74 years old)
(Pennie never met her Great Grandfather Alex, but she would have loved to, he sounds like he was an amazing man.)
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Brent Burnell Rodd (3rd Great Uncle)
D.O.B.
28/3/1879 (37 years)
Embarked
from Sydney, Australia -
'Binalla' - 1/5/1916Disembarked Plymouth, England - 9/7/1916
Proceeded to France 21/11/1916
Major 35th Battalion - 20/1/1918 transferred to 36th Battalion
Wounded in Action in the chest 6/4/1918
Returned to Australia 13/8/1918
Died in Newcastle 22/5/1976 (97 years old)
(Pennie
remembers Great Uncle Brent with a lot of love, he was always such great fun and the life of any party.)
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Clements Ripley Rodd (2nd Great Grandfather)
D.O.B.
30/4/1889Enlisted 7/10/1915 (26 years old)
Embarked Sydney 'Persie' 30/5/1916
Proceeded to France 21/11/1916
Corporal later Sergeant 35th Battalion
Wounded in left hand in action at Abbeville 30/10/1917
Transferred to hospital at Harefield in England
Discharged 8/4/1918
Disembarked in Australia from the ‘Corinthia’ on 8/4/1818
Died Haberfield, Sydney 1961 (72 years old)
(Pennie
remembers her Grandfather with a lot of love,
he was a happy smiling chatty Grandfather who had chickens in the back garden.)
he was a happy smiling chatty Grandfather who had chickens in the back garden.)
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Ella Janet Rodd (3rd Great Aunt)
D.O.B.
8/2/1881
I cannot
find anything online about Ella's Nursing Career.Ella would have been 33 years old at the start of WW1.
Died Sydney 22/5/1967 (86 years old)
(Pennie
remembers Great Aunt Ella with a lot of love, she had a wonderful garden right on the water at Drummoyne, she loved to show us her garden and the shells she had collected.)
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# posted by Pennie @ November 11, 2014 
