Rollcall of Honour

Family with Military Service

'lest we forget'

To protect the privacy of the living,  I have only included the service details for family who have served during or prior to World War II. Click on the hyper-links for related information and to view photo's of some of  these servicemen. 

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WWI (1914-1918)

NOTES For WWI Service: 

• Eli Few was a career sailor and joined well before WWI. Click here to view his entire service record Eli's Service Record. He was invalided in Chatham 30 April 1919 and on 12 May 1921 was demobilised. Eli enlisted initially for a term of 12 years, re-enlisting on  28 September 1907 'To complete time for pension'. Eli served on a number of ships during his long naval career, which spanned 26 years. He was a Ship’s Cook, rising to Leading Cooks Mate and according to family sources, Chief Petty Officer by the time he was demobilised. During his career, Eli was involved in three significant and historical naval actions. The first of these was in June 1900, when he landed with the Naval Brigade in China, during the Boxer Rebellion. For his involvement in operations at Tientsin, he was awarded the China Medal, with a relief of Peking clasp. During the 1st World War Eli saw action, whilst serving on the HMS Bacchante, at the Battle of Heligoland Bight and at Gallipoli, during the allied expedition to the Dardanelle's. HMS Bacchante received battle honour's for both actions. It was at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915 when Eli was ashore with a beach party that he was wounded in operations at Kaba Tepe. He was hit by a 'shrapnel bullet.' 
• Claude Algernon Clifton's first name was incorrectly rendered on his Service Record as Claud. 
• Not sure when the Clifton brothers discharged. The date recorded above is when they Returned To Australia. (Both also served in France with the 8th Battery).

WWII (1939-1945)

NOTES For WWII Service: 

• Albert (Bert) Few initially enlisted in the CMF on 10 October 1941, although his effective service did not commence until the 30th of October. He served in the militia until 19 Aug 1942 (his service number in the militia was W19266). Bert transferred to the AIF on 20 Aug 1942 and was trained as an Engine Hand. Bert had two periods of overseas service in Dutch New Guinea (later renamed to Irian Jaya and now known as Papua). His first stint was between 22 June 1944 and 20 September 1944 and secondly between 1 December 1944 and 3 June 1945. Bert also had operational service at Jacky Jacky (probably in Queensland) between 20 March 1943 and 22 June 1944. He was discharged from the AIF at Karakatta, W.A.
• Arthur Few's birth year is recorded on his Service Record as 1922, this is because he was legally too young for enlistment and engaged in the common practice of putting his age up so that he could 'do his bit.' Arthur enlisted first in the 16th Battalion (Cameron Highlanders), thinking it would be easier to join the AIF by transferring from the militia regiment, in which he served between 8 May 1941 to 6 September 1941 (his service number in the militia was W8746). When he transferred to the AIF he served first with 1st Australian Armoured Division Signals from 20 October  until the unit was disbanded in 1943. Following a short stint with the Pigeon Section, 16th Australian Field Regiment, he was transferred to 1 Australian Operating Signals Section, Queensland.  He was with 1 OP SIGS when he deployed to Morotai Island in the South Pacific on 16 March 1945. Whilst in the South Pacific he was transferred to 88 High Speed Wireless Section on 22 November 1945. Arthur did not return to Australia until after the war on 21 January 1946. He was discharged from the AIF at Karrakatta, W.A.
• David Barnaby (Barney) Davies was a fighter pilot with 75 SQN in New Guinea. He flew Kittyhawks at the age of 19 and was known as 'The Kid'.  In 1944 Barney was flying Mustangs with 3 SQN, based in Italy. On one mission he was hit by anti-aircraft fire and had to ditch his Mustang in the Adriatic. After what was reported as a perfect ditching, Barney was rescued by an amphibious aircraft. In 1945 the squadron was bombing and strafing enemy road transports in Yugoslavia, when once again his aircraft was struck by anti-aircraft fire and he was forced to bail out. Other pilots reported that he had landed safely and that they saw him running into the shelter of some woods, followed by German soldiers. He was rescued by a Slav family, who hid him underground from the Germans and then handed him over to Marshall Tito's partisans. The partisans took him into the mountains until the war was over. War in Europe was over for some weeks before Barney's family found out that he was alive. When news of the Armistice reached the partisans, they fled and left Barney to find his own way back to safety.
• Llewellyn Branthwaite (Branth) Davies tried to enlist in the AIF, however, deafness prohibited him from joining.
• The10th Light Horse Regiment A.I.F. was disbanded after the Great War, in 1919. However, to perpetuate the traditions and distinctions gained by the A.I.F. in the Great War it was decided to redesignate the Citizen Force Units to conform with the numbers of the A.I.F., therefore, with effect from October 1918, 25th Light Horse (W.A.M.I.) became 10th Light Horse. The unit gained A.I.F. status in 1943, however, did not serve overseas.
• Owen Davies also served with the 10th Light Horse Regiment between 1934 and 1940. In the AIF Owen served in the Middle East in 1941 and was a 'Rat of Tobruk'. It was at Tobruk that he was seriously wounded and was paralysed. He eventually came home to W.A. on a hospital ship and spent three years in a hospital in Perth before he was able to walk again.

Colonial & Other Service (pre wwi)

NOTES For Colonial & Other Service:

• The first of the mounted units in Western Australia to be officially formed was the Pinjarra Mounted Volunteers, raised in October 1862. Other volunteer units followed between 1870 and 1897 under such titles as Union Troop of Western Australian Mounted Volunteers, The Wellington Mounted Volunteers and The Perth Mounted Rifle Volunteers. However these were short lived and by 1897 all had been disbanded.  Algernon (Algie) Clifton was an original member of the  Wellington Mounted Volunteers. On 7th June 1900, orders were given to raise the Western Australian Mounted Infantry. By 1901 this was completed and it is in this Volunteer Cavalry Regiment that A SQN, 10th Light Horse Regiment has its origin. The Wellington Mounted Volunteers was disbanded in 1882. In January 1900, a half company of mounted infantry, under the command of Lt. Newton J. Moore, was officially formed as part of the Bunbury Rifle Volunteers. In the same year, other mounted detachments were raised at Harvey, Donnybrook, Brunswick Junction, Pinjarra and Coolup. Collectively with the Bunbury half-company, they were known as the South West Mounted Infantry. Algie, who was a member, joined with them at various functions in honour of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary) on the occasion of their visit to Perth in 1901.
• Lieutenant Thomas Alfred Davies was only 18 and a half years old at the time his regiment went to India in 1857. The 20th Foot, East Devonshire Regiment was sent to India following the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny in that year. He was definitely serving in India in 1864, when he married Maria Louisa Campbell. Thomas sold his commission as a Captain, a practice which was abolished sometime between 1868 and 1873. 
• In 1798-99 many recruits for the 20th Foot, East Devonshire Regiment were raised in Preston (Lancs). Although as the East Devonshire Regiment, it began to rely more on getting its ranks filled from Lancashire, so that when in 1881, the Ellice Committee recommended the re-allocation of Line Regiments to counties, a long established connection was openly recognized in naming the regiment the Lancashire Fusiliers.
• Roger Guerin was said to have run away from home at the age of 12 and served under Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 as a bugle (or drummer) boy. However, if his age, as given on his death certificate, is correct, he would have been only nine years old. He was wounded in the head and knee. A metal plate was placed in his head and the knee patched up. He suffered no ill effects from the head wound, though his knee injury caused a limp, which he carried for the rest of his life. In Aug/Sep 1823 he was recorded on the muster roll for the 21st Foot, Royal North British Fusiliers as a 'recruit joined from Limerick 23 September – in hospital sick. Formerly labourer from Askeaton, (Ireland)'. On 9 November 1824, he embarked with reinforcements for the regiment serving at St. Vincent. For the next two years, he appears on the muster rolls at St. Vincent and Granada. By December 1826, Roger was back in England, listed at Kew, Reading and Windsor. At the end of 1827 he was promoted ‘To Cpl. 6 Coy from Pte. 8 Coy’.In June 1828 he was at Portsmouth, awaiting transport to Ireland. For the next two years he was Fermoy in Cork, Mullingar in County Westmeath and on detachment to Phillipstown. In September that year Roger was at Kilkenny, promoted from ‘Cpl. 6 Coy to Serj. 3 Coy’, then on detachment at Wexford for the next eight months. He rejoined his regiment on 29 May 1831.By the beginning of January 1832 the regiment was back in England at Weedon and Northampton, then to Chatham Barracks in July. On 17 November 1832 he embarked with a detachment of his regiment and a shipload of convicts bound for Van Diemen’s Land. The voyage took five months and they arrived in Hobart on 23 April 1833. After a brief period of nearly four months, a detachment of the 21^st Regiment was ordered to Western Australia to replace the 63rd (this regiment was leaving the colony). Sergeant Guerin, together with his family, were among those who left Van Diemen’s Land on 10 August on board the brig “Jane”. On 28 September 1833, Sergeant Guerin (with twelve soldiers) was at Garden Island waiting to be embarked for Augusta to protect the small party of settlers who had been trying to establish themselves there since 1830. By 1838, Roger and his family had moved to Wonnerup, where he had a small allotment. By this time the Sergeant, according to the muster roll, was still on detachment at the Vasse. However, in the following year he was described as being on furlough, then ‘on discharge receiving no pay’. He remained on the muster roll of the regiment until he was finally discharged on 31July 1845.
• Johann Carl Wilhelm Von Braun was born in Schleswig-Holstein, the son of Captain Carl  Heinrich Braun of the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment. Johann received a military education from the age of 14, and was made a First Lieutenant in ?1772? He was sent to India , in 1780 and served with 2det Regiment Trankebarske Artilleri. This was a small battery in terms of men (actual size in 1778 was 40 Indian and 40 Indian-Portuguese gunners under the command of 10 European sergeants and 3 European officers), but encompassed all the guns in the fortifications of 'Fortress Dansborg' protecting the Royal Danish port and colony of Tranquebar. It was not named as a 'European' regiment, as most of its gunners were either native Indians ('Talliarier') or Portuguese-Indians. Johann first served as a Captain in India, but was later promoted to Major and then Commander of the small Danish force at Tranquebar. He was criticised by the Danish Governor for neglecting the military discipline and drill and after some dispute with the Governor, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. He died shortly after in 1791, aged 50.

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