Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Amies R S  Pte  4353    Reginald Samuel   21 Inf Bn    18    Farmer    Single    C of E   

Address: Kew, Wridgeway Ave, 27       

Next of Kin: Amies, Samuel, father, 27 Wridgeway Ave, Kew   

                                                      17 Pratt St, Moonee Ponds  by October 1917

Enlisted: 4 Jan 1916       

Embarked: RMS Orontes 29 Mar 1916          

 

WOUNDED. AMIES, Private N S [sic] whose parents live at 17 Pratt street, Moonee Ponds, wounded. Tuesday 16 October 1917 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1656344

                                                                                                                            

Pte R. S. Amies, of Pratt street, Moonee Ponds, who was wounded in October, and had his left leg amputated at knee at 1st Gen. Hospital in London, is reported not doing too well. His parents have been advised by private cable that he has had to undergo another operation.   Advertising. (1918, January 4). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 2 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved June 1, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74604693

 

 

 Group portrait of the first life members of the Limbless Soldiers Association of Victoria, 1959. Left to right: Reginald Samuel Amies, Norman Ralph McClure, Walter Benjamin Ashcroft, Charles (Charlie) Henry Stevens, E. Brownhill MBE. Mr Ashcroft was a double amputee. Australian War Memorial P02011.002

 

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