Today we remember …
| 11th April 1917
Rupert Castle-Smith, B Social 1906. Private, 15th Bn, Australian Imperial Force. Believed to have been killed in action, Battle of Arras He was reported missing on 11th April 1917, but not confirmed killed until December 1917. He left school after just one year and went out to Australia soon after. Aged 26 (CWGC lists him as Rupert Castlesmith) |
 Rupert Castle-Smith, B Social Football XI, 1906 |
Today we remember …
| Battle of the Somme
27th August 1916. Walter Brown. D Social, 1897. Private, 15th Bn, Australian Imperial Force. Killed in action at Pozieres. Walter Brown was born in Wigan, Lancashire. After leaving school, he returned home for a short while, working in cotton manufacturing. Then he emigrated to Australia. He enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force and returned to Europe early in 1916. He has no known grave so is listed on the Australian Forces Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux. |
The name of John Wheen on the Le Touret Memorial. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015
| 14th May 1915. Today we remember two Radleians who fell, one in France, the other the first Australian Radleian to fall at Gallipoli. John Wheen, E Social 1894. Captain, 1st Bn, Liverpool Regt. Missing, presumed killed in action, Battle of Festubert (part of the 2nd Battle of Ypres). He served in the Second South African War in 1900 and was invalided home wounded. He was wounded in France in 1914‘previously reported wounded and missing, is now officially presumed to have been killed on May 14-16, 1915.’ |
 John Wheen, Capt 1st Bn Liverpool Regt. Missing, presumed kia, 14 May 1915 |
 Augustus Maryon-Wilson, Trooper, 2nd Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force. kia Gallipoli, 14 May 1915 |
Augustus Maryon-Wilson, A Social 1894. Trooper, 2nd Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force. Killed in action, 14-15 May, at Gallipoli. Originally from Essex, he emigrated to Australia and became a farmer |
 The grave of A Maryon-Wilson at Shrapnel Valley. Photo David Bennett, 18 May 2015 |
 Shrapnel Valley Cemetery is close to ANZAC Cove. Grave of A Maryon-Wilson in foreground. Photo David Bennett, 18 May 2015 |
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