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Australian Engineers

 

1st AUSTRALIAN FIELD COMPANY

Australian Engineers

1st Australian Division

 

 

19th July : Albert area.

21st-22nd July : Digging of a trench North of Chalk Pits.

Night of the 22nd-23rd July : Pickup of Engineer materials at Gordon Dump, Sausage Valley and Chalk Pits.

23rd July : Taking of Pozieres. Digging and improving communication trenches, digging a strong point.

24th-25th July : Consolidation and deepening the original front line South of Pozieres. Construction of a strong point in Pozieres village.

26th July : Albert safe a party of 20 men working in Gordon Dump sector.

27th July : Vadencourt.

28th July : La Vicogne.

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14th August : Vadencourt.

15th August : Near Albert.

16th August : La Boisselle.

Night of the 16th-17th August : Two parties of 150 men each were ordered to dig saps and T heads in front line (North of Pozieres / South of Mouquet Farm). Owing the congestion of the communication trenches, the absence of guides and the heavy German shelling, they can't to reach the first line.

Night of the 17th-18th August : Works in Pozieres.

20th-21st August : Works North of Pozieres.

22nd August : Near Albert.

23rd August : Warloy-Baillon.

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23rd October : Fricourt Wood.

24th October : Mametz Wood.

Works at Montauban and Fricourt.

29th October : Montauban.

1st November : Flers.

Works in Flers / Gueudecourt sector.

14th November : Buire-sur-Ancre.

 

16 names

234    2nd Corporal

Archibald Evatt

BLAND

Died of wounds on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 30

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

50    Lance Corporal

Lionel George Fuller

BURTON

Died of wounds on the 25th July 1916 - Age 20

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

Second Lieutenant

Roy Charles

CROSSLAND

Killed in action on the 18th August 1916 - Age 27

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2384    Sapper

Arthur Joseph

DAYBALL

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 29

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

1258    Sapper

James Edward

ENRIGHT

Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 24

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

1894    Sapper

Leonard

FISHER

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2166    Lance Corporal

Stirling Napier

FRANKI

Died of wounds on the 27th July 1916 - Age 23

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

Captain

Robert Charles

HERBERTSON

Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 33

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

58    Corporal

Percy Frederick

HIRST, MM

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 24

Rest in peace in Pozieres British Cemetery

 

2449    Sapper

Ralph Granville

IRONS

Died of wounds on the 24th July 1916 - Age 23

Rest in peace in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Ext.

 

340    2nd Corporal

William

ROBERTS

Killed in action on the 19th August 1916 - Age 29

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

357    Sapper

Walter Edgar

ROBSON

Died of wounds on the 20th July 1916 - Age 27

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

2044    Sapper

George Gardner

SAMS

Died of wounds on the 3rd September 1916

Rest in peace in Etaples Military Cemetery

 

1339    Lance corporal

Fred Edward Richard

SAUNDERS

Died of wounds on the 24th July 1916

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

Lieutenant

Albert Ernest

TAYLOR

Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 26

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

 

 

215    Sapper

William

WHELAN

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial