Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
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Sergeant Harry Lovell Fynmore - back row, 5th from the left. 1st January 1916, 24th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement, 13 Platoon.
Back Row: 1, 2 Pte Francis Craymore Whitfield, 3, 4, 5 Sgt Harry Lovell Fynmore, 6, 7, 8 .
Front Row: 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6 .
Any further identifications welcome.
Fynmore H L Pte 2639 Harry Lovell 24 Inf Bn 24 Clerk Single C of E
Address: Moonee Ponds, Hall St, 19
Next of Kin: Fynmore, Henrietta, Mrs, mother, 19 Hall St, Moonee Ponds
Enlisted: 18 Jun 1915
Embarked: A38 Ulysses 27 Oct 1915
Prior Service: School cadets, Goulburn, NSW, 2 years.
Relatives on Active Service:
Fynmore L H Pte 628 brother KIA
Fynmore J S Pte 7859 brother
Date of death: 13/06/1918
CWGC: "Son of Frank and Henrietta Fynmore, of 85, Darling Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia".
- BORRE BRITISH CEMETERY
Portrait of Sgt Harry Lovell Fynmore taken at Broadmeadows
prior to embarkation. Sgt Fynmore embarked with the rank
of Acting Sergeant with the 24th Battalion. He was wounded
in action before transferring firstly to the 2nd Light Trench
Mortar Battery and then to the 7th Battalion. Australian
War Memorial Collection.
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/DA11899
An interesting back view of Pte H L Fynmore, showing the
arrangement of his equipment and pack. Australian War
Memorial Collection. Australian War Memorial Collection.
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/DA11900
Portrait of 2811 Pte Francis Craymore Whitfield, of Creswick,
Vic (left), and 2639 Sergeant (Sgt) Harry Lovell Fynmore both
members of the 6th Reinforcements, 24th Battalion. Pte
Whitfield enlisted on 12 July 1915. He died of wounds in France
on 20 August 1916. Australian War Memorial Collection.
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/DA11901
Sgt H L Fynmore. Australian War Memorial Collection.
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/H06361
PREPARING FOR THE FOE
H FYNMORE OF ST THOMAS' HARRIERS
H. Fynmore of St. Thomas' Harriers, whose photograph is reproduced [above], is located at Zeitoun, and is some three stone heavier than when he left Melbourne late last year.
Other members of this club to be mentioned are R. Ransom, promoted to be corporal; H. L. Manners, ill in hospital with influenza, and later with typhoid; while Lieut. Harold Barker, D.C.M. has attained a further honor that of being included in the last party to quit Anzac.
ATHLETES. (1916, March 15). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. Retrieved September 16, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154554943 |
ST. THOMAS' HARRIERS
In a recent letter to Mr T. Cook, H. L. Fynmore makes reference to a number of his St. Thomas's club-mates. He says: — "Captain H. Barker left his old company some time ago; he strained a sinew in one of his ankles, and was sent over to England, where he got a transfer to a Machine Gun section then forming. I hear he is O.C. of that company now, and would not be surprised if he was shortly made a major. Lieutenant S. Bowman is looking well and fit, and is going as strong as ever. Penrose Gatliff, who was a Q.M.S. in his old battalion, has now received a commission, and has been transferred to the 10th Battalion; he is in the best of health and looking fine. Captain Bowtell-Harris has been recuperating in England, and I recently met him in Hyde Park during a 10 days' furlough. He told me he was just about to go before a Medical Board, and was hoping, to get back to his battalion; but I may say he is not looking too well on it, and I rather fancy the Board will give him a few months of home service in England. He richly deserves six months back in Australia, having been right through it all from the jump. Harry Manners, who was a sergeant in a machine gun company, has been sent over to an Officers' Training College in England. Harry Crapp has been transferred to the 2nd Field Ambulance, and I have temporarily lost touch with him. Rupert Terry joined up with his battalion again recently, but before I could get round to see him he was sent back to hospital ill; he is a corporal. R. Ransome is in charge of our Bugle Band; he has not been in, too good trim of late. Word was received early in the present week that Sergeant T. S. Goodall [sic H T Goodall], of the St. Thomas' Harriers, has been wounded in France. It is understood that the wound is, however, not a serious one. Goodall left these shores with the first Australian force.
ATHLETES IN ARMS. (1917, August 8). Winner (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1917), p. 8. Retrieved September 14, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154549212
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See also a pre-war photo of St Thomas' Harriers which includes Harry Lovell Fynmore
Mentioned in this publication:
Essendon Gazette article about St Thomas' Harriers, 8 April 1915 (L Fynmore)
Letter from W H Crapp published in Winner 29 Nov 1916
Winner article based on letter from Harry Manners 21 Mar 1917
War Service Commemorated
Essendon Town Hall F-L
St James Church of England, Moonee Ponds *
St Thomas' Church of England *
St Thomas' Memorial Hall
St Thomas' Harriers
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours CS Maj
Regimental Register
In Memoriam
FYNMORE. —In loving remembrance of my dear
sons and our brothers, Sgt. Harry, 7th Batt,
killed in action, Hazebrouck, June 13, 1918, also
Pte Leslie, 21st. Batt., killed in action, Pozieres,
August 23, 1916, served at Gallipoli
" Their duty nobly done "
-(Inserted by their mother, brothers and sisters)
The Argus 13 June 1919
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1478013
FYNMORE.- In loving remembrance of my dear
sons, and our brothers, Sgt Harry, 7th Batt., killed
in action, Strazeele, June 13, 1918; also Pte Leslie,
21st. Batt, killed in action, Pozieres, August 23,
1916. Served at Gallipoli.
Their duty nobly done.
-(Inserted by their mother, brothers, and
sisters.)
The Argus 12 June 1920
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1711010
FYNMORE. —In sad but loving memory of my
dearly loved fiance, Sergeant Harry Lovell Fyn-
more, 7th Battalion, who fell in France, 13th
June, 1918.
In God's keeping.
—(Inserted by his loving fiance, Ettie.)
The Argus 14 June 1920
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1711084
No further notices in The Argus to 1923.
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