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Southwell-B-C-S-Pte-2664

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 7 years, 6 months ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Acting Corporal Bertie Charles Sydney Stedman Southwell,

circa September 1915, at Broadmeadows.

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/DA10176

 

Southwell B C S  Pte  2664  Bertie Charles Sydney Stedman    7 Inf Bn    32    Student    Single    C of E

Address:    Moonee Ponds, Eglinton St, 71   

Next of Kin:    Southwell, W S, father 71 Eglinton St, Moonee Ponds   

Enlisted:    3 Jun 1915       

Embarked:     A68 Anchises 26 Aug 1914   

 

Southwell was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 10 March 1916 while serving with the 59th Battalion. On 16 August 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant and on 10 November 1917 he was promoted to captain.

 

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/DA10175

 

Mr B Stedman Southwell, of Moonee Ponds, has cabled to his parents that he has received a commission in the 59th Battalion. He joined the AIF as a private and is somewhere at the front.


Tuesday 4 April 1916
Cite: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2098664 

 

B. S. Southwell of Moonee Ponds, has been promoted to lieutenant, and has been appointed assistant adjutant to the 15th Brigade Training Battalion in England. Lieut. Southwell saw service for some considerable time in the trenches in Egypt.

 

ROLL OF HONOR. (1916, October 26). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 3 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved March 5, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74594560

 

Mentioned in this publication:

Fair Dinkums, The, by Glenn McFarlane, pp 152, 316, 354-355

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall R-Y

St Thomas' Anglican Church

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours

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