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Australian Engineers

 

5th AUSTRALIAN FIELD COMPANY

Australian Engineers

2nd Australian Division

 

 

20th July : Vadencourt.

22nd July : Albert.

23rd July : Contalmaison. Works on Copse Avenue.

24th July : Works South-East of Pozieres (Walkers Avenue).

25th July : Works on Copse Avenue.

26th July : Contalmaison. Sunken Road and Pioneer Trench.

27th July : Works on Copse Avenue.

28th July : Albert.

30th July : Works in La Boisselle and on the road to Contalmaison.

1st August : Contalmaison.

2nd August : Works South-East of Pozieres.

3rd-4th August : Improvement of Walkers Avenue, Copse Avenue and Tram Line Trench.

5th August : Digging of a communication trench between the first front line to O.G.I captured by the 20th Battalion.

6th August : Albert.

8th August : Warloy-Baillon.

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18th August : Albert.

20th August : Tara Hill.

21st-25th August : Works South of Pozieres.

26th-27th August : Digging a new trench East of Pozieres.

27th August : La Boisselle then Albert.

29th August : Warloy-Baillon.

31st August : Beauval.

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26th October : Ribemont-sur-Ancre.

30th October : Becordel.

11th November : Montauban quarry.

21st November : Ribemont-sur-Ancre.

 

8 names

5427    Sapper

James Herbert

BARRETT

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 26

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2972    Sapper

Ormond William Craigie

BENNETT

Killed in action on the 26th August 1916 - Age 27

Rest in peace in Sunken Road Cemetery

 

2122    Sapper

Thomas Bradbury

BURTON

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

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

2114    Sapper

William Robert

CAME

Killed in action on the 4th August 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

3015    Sapper

Edward

CLAYFIELD

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 33

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

1195    Sapper

George Wheatly

FORSTER

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

Lieutenant

Frank Harold

LANG

Killed in action on the 26th July 1916 - Age 34

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

 

2952    Lance Sergeant

Norman Henry Victor

POWELL

Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 27

Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial