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BATEMAN, Herbert Pearson, Private, 28th Battalion
Rank: Lieutenant
Regimental Number: 564
Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia
Address: 33 Moss Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Mary Bateman
Enlistment Date: 24 March 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, C Company
Age embarkation: 30
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Barrister
Date of Death: 5 August 1916
Place of Burial: Pozieres British Cemetery (Plot III, Row K, Grave No. 16), Ovillers-La-Boiselle, France
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Lieutenant HERBERT PEARSON BATEMAN
Lieutenant Herbert Pearson Bateman (564) was also born at Perth and educated at the Scotch College, Claremont. He enlisted in April, 1915, and sailed in June of the same year. He served in Egypt and Gallipoli, leaving the peninsula at the evacuation. he embarked for France in March, 1916, and served with the 28th Battalion at Messines and Armentieres. He was later transferred to 7th L.T.M. Battery and fell at Pozieres August 5th, 1916, aged 32 years.
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BATEMAN, Vernon, Sergeant, 28th Battalion — Streets of East Freo
BATEMAN, Horace William, Private, 28th Battalion — Streets of East Freo
Bateman Brothers. Herbert on the right.
33 Moss Street, East Fremantle.
BAIRD, John, Corporal, 32nd Battalion
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: 1211
Place of Birth: Linlithgowshire, Scotland
Address: Napoleon Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Margaret Baird
Enlistment Date: 19 July 1915
Unit Name: 32nd Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 35
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Railway clerk
Date of Death: 1 December 1917
Place of Burial: Messines Ridge British Cemetery (Plot I, Row B, Grave No. 56), Belgium
Image Courtesy of Australian War Memorial
McCREERY, George, Private, 16th Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2296
Place of Birth: East Freemantle, Western Australia
Address: 13 Hubble Street(WW1: 31), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Joseph McCreery
Enlistment Date: 7 June 1915
Unit Name: 16th Battalion; 48th Bn; 4th Division Pioneer Battalion
Age embarkation: 23
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Tinsmith
Date of Death: 4 August 1916
Place of Burial: Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot VII, Row E, Grave no. 14), France
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1916 Killed In Action. Died of wounds in France on August 4, Private George McCreery, dearly-beloved second son of Mr. and Mrs. McCreery, and loving brother of Wilfred McCreery, 31 Hubble street, East Fremantle; beloved brother of Private Joseph McCreery, on active service; loved comrade of Private Frank Hopkins, on active service; and, most sincere friend of Miss Rose Clancy; aged 23 years 10 months. (reference)
1918 In Memoriam. Died of wounds in France on August 4, 1916, Private George McCreery, dearly-beloved second son of Mr. and Mrs. McCreery, and loving brother of Wilfred McCreery, 31 Hubble-street, East Fremantle and beloved brother of Private Joseph McCreery (on active service). We miss and mourn you in silence unseen, And dwell in the memory of days that have been…Inserted by his sorrowing parents and brothers. (reference)
LEHMANN, Benno Carl, Lieutenant, 11th Battalion
Rank: Lieutenant
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Place of Birth: Maitland, South Australia
Address: 26 Allen Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs E J Lehmann.
Enlistment Date: 16 September 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 36
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Marine engineer
Date of Death: 21 September 1917
Place of Burial: No known grave
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Lieutenant BENNO CARL LEHMAN.
Lieutenant Benno Carl Lehman, son of Augusta and the late Emil Lehman, was born at Maitland, S.A., and educated at Adelaide. He was married on the 3rd April, 1909, to Lila Mcllwaine, daughter of Henry and Kate Mcllwaine, Solomon-street, Palmyra, East Fremantle. Prior to the outbreak of war he went into camp at Fort Forrest [Blackboy Hill] and later joined the A.I.F and sailed as O.C. 14th Reinforcements, 11th Battalion. On his arrival in France he was transferred to the 3rd Machine Gun Coy. and was wounded at Bullecourt on the [5th and] 6th May, 1917. He was awarded the M.C. and was in action until the 21st September, 1917, when he was killed at Glencose Wood and was buried at Clapham Junction.
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Transcript from “The Last Post Ceremony commemorating the service of Lieutenant Benno Carl Lehmann MC, 3rd Australian Machine Gun Company, First World War” By Kate Ariotti, Australian War Memorial.
Lieutenant Benno Carl Lehmann MC, 3rd Australian Machine Gun Company
KIA 21 September 1917
Today we remember and pay tribute to Lieutenant Benno Carl Lehmann, who died during the First World War.
Benno Lehmann was born in December 1879 to Emilius and Auguste Lehmann in Maitland, South Australia. When war broke out Lehmann was living with his wife, Eliza, in Fremantle, Western Australia. The 35-year-old was working as a marine engineer when he enlisted in the AIF in September 1915.
Lehmann joined the 14th reinforcements of the 11th Battalion. He left Fremantle on HMAT Miltiades in February 1916 and arrived in Egypt one month later. After a few weeks training, Lehmann was sent to France, where he spent several months instructing reinforcements at Ètaples. In October 1916 he attended Vickers Machine Gun School, and was promoted to lieutenant just after Christmas. Early in the new year Lehmann was transferred from the 11th Battalion and was taken on strength of the 3rd Australian Machine Gun Company. He underwent a further period of instruction and training at Camiers and re-joined his unit in late April 1917.
In May 1917 Lehmann was involved in the fighting around Bullecourt at Riencourt. He was wounded in the right buttock and was sent to hospital for treatment and convalescence. Lehmann rejoined his unit in early July and in August was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty for his actions at Riencourt. The citation for his MC read:
During an enemy counter-attack he brought his gun into action at great personal risk … On seeing his gun in danger of being captured he led a bombing attack and though twice wounded, remained until the enemy was repulsed.
Lehmann was killed just over a month later. On 21 September the 3rd Machine Gun Company was involved in the fighting around Glencorse Wood as part of the larger allied advance on the Menin Road. Lehmann had been wounded early in the battle, and was making his way back to the front after receiving treatment at a casualty clearing station when he was hit by a shell. He was badly wounded, and witnesses stated that he died instantly.
Lehmann’s death was reported in several Western Australian newspapers. He was described as “a most popular officer” and it was said that his death came “as a great shock to a large circle of friends”. As a sign of respect and mourning, the flags of the Fremantle Harbour Trust, where Lehmann had previously worked, were flown at half-mast.
After the war, Lehmann was commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in the Belgian town of Ypres. This memorial contains the names of over 54,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died during the First World War and who have no known grave, including 6,000 Australian soldiers.
Benno Lehmann’s name is listed on the Roll of Honour to my right, along with the names of more than 60,000 other Australians who died fighting in the First World War. His photograph is displayed today by the Pool of Reflection.
This is but one of the many stories of service and sacrifice told here at the Australian War Memorial. We now remember Lieutenant Benno Carl Lehmann, and all those Australians who have given their lives in the service of our nation.
LANDGREN, Robert Clarence, Sapper, Cavalry Divisional Signal Squadron 1
Rank: Sapper
Regimental Number: 17535
Place of Birth: Brunswick, Victoria
Address: East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Andrew Gustav Landgren
Enlistment Date: 29 November 1916
Unit Name: Cavalry Divisional Signal Squadron 1
Age embarkation: 23
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Railway telegraphist
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KENNY, George Henry, Private, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 3689
Place of Birth: Perth Western Australia
Address: Silas Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs G Bergin,
Enlistment Date: 28 July 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 12th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 21
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Engine driver
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BALL, Albert John, Private, 2nd machine gun battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 6537
Place of Birth: England
Address: 100 King Street(WW1: 186), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Edith Gertrude Ball
Enlistment Date: 31 October 1916
Unit Name: 2nd machine gun battalion
Age at Embarkation: 29
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: 4 September 1918
Place of Death: Mont St Quentin, France
Place of Burial: Daours Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot VIII, Row B, Grave No. 72), France
ATTWOOD, William Hamilton, Private, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 2116
Place of Birth: Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Address: 9 Canning Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mrs Esther Alice Attwood
Enlistment Date: 10 March 1916
Unit Name: 11th Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 29
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Loco Foreman
Returned: 1 June 1919
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1938 Old Colonist Passes. The death occurred yesterday morning of Mrs. Easter Alice Attwood, aged 89 years, of 9 Canning-road, East Fremantle Mrs. Attwood, who would have celebrated her 90th birthday in April, had been in Western Australia for 71 years, having arrived at the age of 18 in the Racehorse. On the vessel also was her future husband, and they were married at St. John's Church, Fremantle, shortly after their arrival. Her husband, who predeceased her some years ago, was attached to the military forces in Western Australia. Eight children and 32 grandchildren are living. (reference)
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ATTWOOD, Charles Alfred, Private, 28th Battalion — Streets of East Freo
Resident of 9 Canning Road
1909 - 1927: Attwood, Mrs. E. A.
1933 - 1940: Hamilton, William & Charles, Alfred
ATTWOOD, Charles Alfred, Private, 28th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 2116
Place of Birth: Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Address: 9 Canning Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mrs Esther Alice Attwood
Enlistment Date: 23 July 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 43
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Storeman
Returned: 7 August 1915
History
1938 Old Colonist Passes. The death occurred yesterday morning of Mrs. Easter Alice Attwood, aged 89 years, of 9 Canning-road, East Fremantle Mrs. Attwood, who would have celebrated her 90th birthday in April, had been in Western Australia for 71 years, having arrived at the age of 18 in the Racehorse. On the vessel also was her future husband, and they were married at St. John's Church, Fremantle, shortly after their arrival. Her husband, who predeceased her some years ago, was attached to the military forces in Western Australia. Eight children and 32 grandchildren are living. (reference)
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ATTWOOD, William Hamilton, Private, 11th Battalion — Streets of East Freo
Resident of 9 Canning Road
1909 - 1927: Attwood, Mrs. E. A.
1933 - 1940: Hamilton, William & Charles, Alfred
ARBUCKLE, Beresford, Private, 12th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 773
Place of Birth: Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Address: Osbourne Park via Leederville, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Arbuckle
Enlistment Date: 14 September 1914
Unit Name: 12th Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 22
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Boiler attendant
Date of Death: 12 June 1915
Place of Death: Gallipoli, Turkey
HISTORY
12th Battalion Private Beresford Arbuckle was born Burwood, Victoria, and was the youngest son of Elizabeth nee Klepper (with Prussian ancestry) and Robert Arbuckle. Robert established a market garden in Main Street, Osborne Park via Leederville. When he died there in 1903, his older sons continued his business, renaming it Arbuckle Brothers.
Beresford was State schooled, finished his Engine Drivers' training in 1911 and was working as a boiler attendant when he enlisted on 31 August 1914 at Blackboy Hill aged 22.
On 31 May, at Gallipoli, Beresford was severely reprimanded for disobeying orders and for improper conduct to his superior officer. Had he been a British soldier, he’d have likely been shot.
Just a fortnight later, on 13 June 1915, Beresford was in action when he suffered shrapnel wounds to the abdomen. He died later the same day at the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station and was later buried at Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at the southern point of Anzac Cove. His grave was just a few steps from that of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, ‘the man with the donkey’ who was killed in the same area a few weeks earlier.
Beresford’s older brother James had nine children, including one the year after Beresford's death. He was named Beresford Trevor in memory of Beresford. There have subsequently been many sons born in the family who carry the name Beresford, so he has never been forgotten.
The reason his name appears on the East Fremantle Roll of Honour was a mystery. Beresford’s mother Elizabeth asked Michael Joseph Regan, from IXL Bakery on Sewell Street, East Fremantle, to witness her completion of Beresford’s Roll of Honour Circular but, otherwise, neither he nor his parents had any association with the area.
There was a more distant relative in John Arbuckle and his wife Margaret though, who were long term residents of East Fremantle, living firstly at 144 King Street and then 42 Glyde Street, East Fremantle. It is likely they who organised for Beresford’s name to be inscribed on the Roll of Honour.
Researched and written by Shannon Lovelady for www.streetsofeastfreo
12th Battalion Private Beresford Arbuckle, died of wounds 13 June 1915, Gallipoli.
Photo courtesy Australian War Memorial, image C70672.
ANGWIN, Benjamin, Second Lieutenant, 28th Battalion
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service Number: -
Place of Birth: Egremont, Cumberland, England
Address: 83 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle
Next of Kin: Mrs Maude Evelyn Angwin
Enlistment Date: 29 September 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 29
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Clerk
Returned: 13 February 1917
Date of Death: 5 December 1919
Place of Burial: Fremantle Cemetery (Portion Methodist, Grave No. 65), Western Australia
ANDREWS, Alfred George, Private, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 6714
Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia
Address: 13 Hubble Street (pre-1939, 1 Hubble St today), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mrs E Andrews
Enlistment Date: 1 August 1916
Unit Name: 28th Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 41
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Lumper
Returned: 25 August 1917
ANDERSON, Silas, Private, 28th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 1891
Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia
Address: 63 King Street (WW1: 125 King Street), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Alfred Anderson
Enlistment Date: 25 June 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
Age at Embarkation: 26
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Returned: 2nd December 1919
Date of Death: 12 Sep 1958 (Age 73)
History
1919 June 4th, He Married Gladys Irene Marlow in Bermondsey, London.
Silas Father lived at 63 King Street: 1916 - 1922.
ALLARD, William, Staff Sergeant, 10th Light Horse Regiment
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Service Number: 3048
Place of Birth: Taradale, Victoria
Address: Silas Street, East Fremantle
Next of Kin: George Francis Allard
Enlistment Date: 9 March 1916
Unit Name: 10th Light Horse Regiment
Age at Embarkation: 32
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Stockman
Returned: 10 July 1919
ALLAN, Norman Leslie, Sapper, 28th Battalion
Rank: Sapper
Service Number: 6289
Place of Birth: Hawthorn Melbourne, Victoria
Address: 52 East Street(WW1: 80), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Violet Allan
Enlistment Date: 25 September 1916
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement
Age at Embarkation: 23
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Driver
Returned: 1st November 1919
Date of Death: 5 April 1960
Place of Burial: Fremantle Cemetery, Palmyra, Western Australia
History
1917 October 25th. Allan Married Florence Wood.
Allan was a resident of 52 East Street: 1910 - 1927
ALFORD, Ernest Vincent, Gunner, 36th Heavy Artillery Group
Rank: Gunner
Service Number: 1293
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales
Address: 93 King Street(WW1: 187), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Ruby Hilda Rachael Alford
Enlistment Date: 20 December 1917
Unit Name: 36th Heavy Artillery Group
Age at Embarkation: 23
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Printer
Returned: 12 July 1919
History
It is belived Ernest Vincent Alford is on the Honour Board but as E B Alford which likely was delivered verbally as E V and misheard, for he is Ernest Vincent. He was at 187 Duke on first enlistment in 1916 but was then discharged at his own request back to the Fremantle Garrison Artillery for home service. He then married in 1917 and moved a few houses down the road, to 192 Duke Street, before enlisting again in late-1917 and serving overseas with the Artillery.
AITKEN, Eric Edwin, Private, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 7359
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria
Address: 73 Oakover Street (23 Glyde St at time of enlistment)
Next of Kin: Mrs Florence Margaret Aitken
Enlistment Date: 1 April 1916
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 24th Reinforcement
Age at Embarkation: 29
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Painter & Signwriter
Returned: 6 October 1919
Date of Death: 24 December, 1958
Place of Burial: Karrakatta Cemetary, Nedlands, Western Australia
History
Residents of 73 Oakover Street (23 Glyde St).
1929 - 1930: Aitken, Mrs. Florence M.
1931 - 1936: Aitken, Eric Edwin
ABLETT, Frederick William, Private, 44th Battalion
Rank: Private
Service Number: 307
Place of Birth: Woodville, South Australia
Address: 76 Duke Street, East Fremantle (WW1: 162 Duke Street)
Next of Kin: Mrs Mary Letetia Ablett
Enlistment Date: 17 January 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 32
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Wood Machinist
Returned: 11 May 1919
Date of Death: 18 September 1967
History
76 Duke Street
Commemorated at Rookwood Cemetery Garden of Remembrance, Rookwwood NSW.