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Australian Engineers

 

3rd AUSTRALIAN FIELD COMPANY

Australian Engineers

1st Australian Division

 

 

19th July : Albert area.

20th-23rd July : Digging of a communication trench and improvement of the firing line in front of Pozieres.

23rd July : Taking of Pozieres.

24th July : Albert.

Night of the 25th-26th July : Works in Pozieres village.

26th July : Gordon Dump.

Night of the 26th-27th July : Works planned in Pozieres village impossible due to the German shelling.

27th July : Albert.

28th July : Harponville.

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16th August : Near Albert.

17th August : Tara Hill.

Night of the 17th-18th August : Digging works South-East of Pozieres.

Night of the 18th-19th August : Digging of a communication trench from Munster Alley to the front line trench. Construction of a strong point and digging of a communication trench in front the Mouquet farm.

19th-21st August : Works in North of Pozieres (consolidation, digging and deepening trenches, building of strong-points).

22nd August : Albert.

23rd August : Warloy-Baillon.

24th August : Beauval.

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23rd October : Buire-sur-l'Ancre.

24th October : Fricourt.

Repair and maintenance of Roads.

30th October : Montauban.

Building huts, draining camps and repairing rods in Longueval / Flers area. Construction of a "Decauville" line in Longueval.

 

13 names

489    Corporal

Frederick Clifford

ALLINGHAM

Killed in action on the 20th July 1916 - Age 26

Rest in peace in Becourt Military Cemetery

 

1986    Sapper

Bror Gustaf

BRAUN

Killed in action on the 21st August 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

248    Sapper

Victor

CAPSTICK

Killed in action on the 22nd July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2362   Sapper

Percival Charles

CHAPPELL

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

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2361    Sapper

John Henry

CLEARY

Killed in action on the 22nd July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

427    Sergeant

Douglas Gerald

COHEN

Killed in action on the 20th July 1916

Rest in peace in Becourt Military Cemetery

 

2007    Sapper

Thomas Leslie

LEE

Killed in action on the 22nd July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2582   Sapper

Arnold George

McCOMISH

Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 25

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2352   Sapper

Francis Horace

McCURRIE

Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 27

Rest in peace in Pozieres British Cemetery

 

447    Sapper

Ernest

WALLACE

Died of wounds on the 19th September 1916 - Age 25

Rest in peace in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

 

80   Sapper

George Edric

WARE

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

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

1281    Sapper

Rudolph Ernest

WILL

Died of wounds on the 18th August 1916 - Age 24

Rest in peace in St Sever Cemetery

 

 

 

Lieutenant

Arthur Stuart

WILLIAMS

Killed in action on the 22nd July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial