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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

BORRE Churchyard (Nord France)

M. Gleeson - A. O. Johnston - J. Platt - A. E. L. Jewell - E. C. Simons - J. Boyd - A. O. G. Thomas

H. Stewart - A. Hawtin - E. Biglin

Pte Edward Charles Simons 15/04/1918 aged 20
His uncle, Percy Charles Crombie is honoured at The Australian Memorial, at Villers Bretonneux
http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/australian.htm
For Gaye White and family (Camberra - Aus.)


Pte Albert Ernest Leslie Jewell MM 15/04/1918 aged 30 Son of Albert Jewell, Albert was born in warracknabeal, Victoria. Single man, he enlisted on 22/02/1916 in Hamilton, Victoria. He was awarded the Military Medal on 12/12/1917 for an action on 04/10/1917 where he was wounded by a gun shot to his right thigh, he was gazetted on 02/05/1918. Albert was wounded in action receiving a gun shot to the head and died the same day. for his nephew Peter Hyde

10 casualties

BIGLIN E
United Kingdom Corporal East Yorkshire Regiment 11th Bn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 14/04/1918 Service No: 13/1419 (B.3.)

BOYD JOHN
Australian Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 11th Bn. Age: 36 Date of Death: 16/04/1918 Service No: 6234 (A.6.)

GLEESON MAURICE
Australian Private Australian Army Medical Corps 1st Field Amb. Age: 22 Date of Death: 14/04/1918 Service No: 17534 (A.1.)

HAWTIN ALBERT
United Kingdom Sapper Royal Engineers 210th Field Coy. Age: 34 Date of Death: 17/04/1918 Service No: 398770 (B.2.)

JEWELL A E L
Australian Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 6th Bn. Date of Death: 15/04/1918 Service No: 6288 (A.4.)

JOHNSTON ALEXANDER OLPHUR
Australian Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 3rd Bn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 15/04/1918 Service No: 3133 (A.2.)

PLATT JOSEPH
United Kingdom Gunner Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty. 28th Bde. Age: 29 Date of Death: 14/04/1918 Service No: 244280 (A.3.)

SIMONS EDWARD CHARLES
Australian Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 6th Bn. Age: 20 Date of Death: 15/04/1918 Service No: 5486 (A.5.)

STEWART HUGH
United Kingdom Lieutenant Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps 94th Field Amb. Age: 38 Date of Death: 12/04/1918 (B.1.)

THOMAS A O G
Australian Gunner Australian Trench Mortar Battery 1st Date of Death: 23/04/1918 Service No: 2511 (A.7.)

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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations