Remembrance day

Avoca Soldiers Memorial in January 2007: not all of the men associated with the district are listed on the memorial

My database lists 66 men from Avoca or associated with the Avoca district who were killed or died of wounds in World War I.

Name AIF Number Date Enlisted Killed or wounded? Unit Approx. Yr of Birth - Yr of Death Barnes, George Herbert 3118 20/09/1916 51st Bn 1885-1917 Barnes, Henry William (Harry) - ? Should be Henry James 2790 51st Bn Beavis, James Sutherland (Jas Jun.) Lieut 22 1915 died of wounds, France 13/7/1918 39th Bn 1886-1918 Beer, Charles 3029 KIA, France, 27/3/1918 58th Bn AIF 1883- Brown, James Neil 4741 20-Jul-15 died of wounds, France 7/9/1917 46th Bn AIF 1897-1917 Brown, John Alexander 1799 3-May-16 died, Belgium 8/6/1917 39th Bn AIF 2nd Reinf 1893-1917 Burns, William 3039 died, Belgium 26/9/1917 59th Bn AIF -1917 Cox, Graham Rodgers 2567 Jun-15 killed in action Fleurbaix 16.7.16 58th Bn 1895-1916 Cox, Lyle Hampden 4761 9-Sep-15 died of wounds 16.11.18 58th Bn 1891-1918 Croft, Charles William 801 died Melbourne 17/6/1916 37th Bn AIF 1884-1916 Currie, Hubert Roulstone Clifford (Cliff R.) 884 fallen 8th Light Horse Davenport, Harold A. 3074 Feb-16 killed in action 8/6/1917 45th Bn Dobley (Doblie), Leslie 1809 / 2301 died Belgium 4/10/1917 12th Army FAB / 39th Bn AIF -1917 Driscoll, Allan Ernest 6132 Feb-16 KIA 12/7/1918 39th Bn 1896-1918 Driver, William Henry n/a 20-Jul-15 died Melbourne 14/8/1915 AIF (Depot) 1893-1915 Evans, Gilbert George Henry 148 fallen 21st Bn 1893-1916 Fish, Walter 2227 KIA Gallipoli 13/7/1915 6th Bn AIF 1878-1915 Gallag(h)er, Nathaniel 885 15-Feb-16 KIA Belgium 30/4/1917 39th Bn AIF: 10th Inf Brigade, C Coy 1890-1917 George, Herbert L. 408 Sep-14 KiA France 25/7/1916 1884-1916 Harrowfield, Norman Andrew 1740 Oct-14 died France 28/7/1916 8th Bn 1889-1916 Hartigan, Clarence Victor 1927 KiA 20/1/1917 46th Bn 1896-1917 Henderson, John Hamilton ~ bef Oct 1915 died Cerebro Meningitis 8/10/1915 92nd Coy (Seymour) 1892-1915 Henry, Clifford Albert 22076 fallen 3rd AFA Bde Australian Field Artillery Hope, George Reuben 623 fallen 8th Light Horse 1895-1915 Howell, Tom Pym 2126 KIA France 16/4/1918 2nd Aust Pioneers -1918 Kiehl, Anton 2020 KIA Gallipoli 19/5/1915 1st Div HQ formerly 2nd Field Amb Army Medical Corps; saled with 4th Field Amb 1880-1915 Knuckey, Frederick William Laurence 66 38th Bn Lansdell, Francis Henry (Harry) 7516 Apr-17 KIA France 15/4/1918 6th Bn 1891-1918 Livingstone, John (Jack) 2406A 1915 died of sickness France 21/10/1918 46th Bn AIF -1918 McArdle, John Eric Farquhar 2544 29-Mar-16 KIA 26.9.17 60th Bn 1898-1917 McDowell, William Robert 3831 2-Jun-16 KIA26.9.17 29th Bn 1896-1917 Oppy, William Edward 1964 6/03/1916 died 13/10/1917 38th Bn 1898-1917 Orrock, John Harold 6621 7/05/1915 died of wounds 4th Field Arty 1897-1916 Petherick, Ordmonds Leslie(Orme) 2759 23/07/1915 killed 1916 - reported Sept 1916 10th Bn Rowland, Henry Herbert 1131 29-Sep-14 KIA 8/5/1915 Gallipoli, Lone Pine 8th Battallion, 2nd Reinforcements -1915 Rowland, Wesley Richard 1877 12/08/1915 enteric fever Egypt; KIA 21/7/1916 Pozieres 31st Battallion of the 8th Brigade -1916 Sells, William John 2249 4/03/1915 5th Bn Smith, Stanley William 3484 28/04/1917 DoW 9/8/1918 60th Bn 1892-1918 Stewart, Alfred Eyvel 232 27-Mar-16 KiA 13/8/1918 39th Battn Stuart, William Charles 5454 12-Feb-16 fallen 5th Bn Summers, David L. (Dave) 635 16-Aug-14 paid supreme sacrifice KIA 19/7/1916 60th Bn 1893-1916 Templeton, George Hugh 4597 7-Sep-15 DoW 26/9/1917 sailed with 8th Bn (14th Reinf); 58th Bn Tootell, Edward 5152 6-Mar-16 KIA 24/4/1918 6th Aust Light TM Battery Tuck, Percy Clarence 1672 DoW 1/5/1915 4th Bn 1890-1915 Turpin, Henry 6357 23-Feb-16 DoW 17/4/1917 8th Bn; 20th Reinf Webster, Frank Thomas 1011 joined 3/3/1916 from 19th ALH Died of Disease 4.8.16 39th Bn Webster, Isaac Oswald (Ike) 871 1914 killed at Gallipoli landing D Coy 6th Battn 2nd Inf Brigade 1888-1915 Willmott, Charles Jonathon 401 17-Aug-14 KIA 25/4/1915 7th Bn 1888-1915 Wrigley, Fred Rankin 3168 1916 KIA 24.4.18 60th Battn 1885-1918 Yates, Leslie Reginald (Les) 2198 or 1861 15-Apr-15 paid supreme sacrifice KIA 26.7.1916 8th Bn; 6th reinf 1888-1916 Young, John Percival 2763 3/10/1916 gassed; died 9/11/1918 pneumonia in England 37th Battn 1896-1918

The following men were associated with the broader district but not the South Riding of Avoca Shire which was the Memorial's focus.

Borbridge, James Charles	6620	1/08/1916	KIA	7th Bn	1884-1917
Buck, Frederick Thomas	4286		died 30/10/1918	3rd Tun Coy	1884-1918
Davies, Harold William	3537		DoW 5/4/1918	58th Bn
Davies, Robert William	6402A		died Belgium 20/9/1917	28th Bn AIF	1897-1917
Emerson, Leslie V.	4101			24th Bn	1897-1918
Forte, Edwin	610		died France 2/3/1917	26th Bn AIF
Fuller, Jarvis Bunting	6994		fallen	7th Bn
Jones, Alfred (Alf)	2198			59th Bn	-1917
Kerr, William Robert	6349		died of wounds France 30/8/1918	23rd Bn AIF	1891-1918
McDonald, Joseph Henry	198	8-Feb-15	DoW 29/10/1915	22nd Bn	1896-1915
Mitchell, Edwin	2268		KiA 25/4/1915	6th Bn
Sedery, Charles	2222	5/04/1915	KiA 6/8/1915	11th Bn
Seymour, Rupert Leslie	783A	15/03/1915	KiA 6/4/1918	20th Bn	1891-1918
Stewart, Arthur A. (Art)	1399	21-Mar-16	KIA	39th Battn
Stewart, Thomas (Tom)	1398	21-Mar-16	KIA	39th Battn