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Ferguson-W-C-Pte-1936

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 8 years, 1 month ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Sorting Red Cross Parcels at the Gustrow POW Camp, Germany, 1917-1918.

 

Ferguson W C     Pte    1936    Walter Charles       14 Inf Bn    18    Wicker worker    Single    Bap         

Address:    Moonee Ponds, McNae St, 26    

Next of Kin:    Ferguson, Phoebe, Mrs, mother, 26 McNae St, Moonee Ponds    

Enlisted:    12 Jan 1915        

Embarked:     A20 Hororata 17 Apr 1915    

Prior service: Cadets Ascot Vale

 

In 1914 Walter Ferguson was training with the Ascot Vale senior cadets.  On 26 March 1914 the Gazette reported that he had been charged with obstructing a member of the military forces while on duty.  He was fined 10s or in default 7 days at Queenscliff.  On Saturday 14 June he was brought before the Police Court in Moonee Ponds for talking in the ranks, and was fined £1 or 10 days in detention at Queenscliff if he did not pay the fine.  A fortnight later Ferguson appeared before the court for having failed to pay the fine, and was sent to Queenscliff for 14 days.  On Tuesday 28 July Ferguson was sentenced to 20 days at Queenscliff.  Despite his apparent reluctance to comply with drill requirements, he was a fairly early enlistee.

 

Red Cross Missing Persons Correspondence

1  Missing 11.4.17

Prisoner of War - Captured Riencourt 11.4.17 - Interned Limburg.  Cert by information from German List dated 23.6.17.

 

2  Transferred Friedrichsfeld.  Postcard (first) received from man dated 17.9.17

 

3  Interned Gustrow

"This leaves me in the best of health". 

Cert by extract from post card received from man dated 26.12.17.

 

4  "Repatriated prisoner of war.  Arrived Hull 4.1.19.  Cert by List from AIF Hqrs 7.1.19"

 

Gustrow Prisoner of War Camp in Germany, 1917-1918.  Photographer:  4199 Sergeant William Charles Groves, 14th Battalion, an Australian prisoner of war held at Güstrow.  AWM Collection P09591.099.   

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall F-L

Ascot Vale State School

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour Missing

 

 

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