Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Ayre J   Cpl  1156    James    2 FAB    33    Commercial traveller    Married    Pres        

Address: Essendon, Rose St    

Next of Kin: Ayre, Kate, Mrs, wife, Rose St, Essendon    

Enlisted: 17 Aug 1914        

Embarked: A9 Shropshire 20 Oct 1914      

One Thousand Days with the AIF                       

Gunner Frederick Sydney Loch also embarked on the Shropshire with the 2nd Field Artillery Battalion, and wrote an account of it published as Straits Impregnable by Sydney de Lough during the war, though initially disguising it as a novel.  An annotated version of Loch's book has been published by Susanna de Vries, and now called  To Hell and Back.                                                                                                                                                                          

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