Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Lieutenant Arthur George Walmsley, 21st Battalion, of
Kensington, Vic, http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C01248
Walmsley A G Pte 2234 Arthur George 23 Inf Bn 20 Clerk Single Meth
Address: Kensington, Bay View Tce, 5
Next of Kin: Walmsley, Joseph Edward, father, 5 Bay View Tce, Kensington
Enlisted: 9 Jul 1915
Embarked: A20 Hororata 27 Sep 1915
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Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau Correspondence
21st Australians, B Co, VII Pltn
Australian Camp, Rouelles
I saw him killed at Ypres Casualty was on the morning of the attack at Ypres. I was very close to him at the time, but cannot say exactly where he was hit, I was wounded at the same time, but I reported it to Capt Sandford a/c of my coy. I cannot give any further details and I cannot refer to anyone.
Witness McHale L/Cpl R 3888
21st Btbm D Coy, 15th Pltn
3rd AAH Dartford.
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Re Lieut A G Walmsley of this Battn. I have to inform you that he posted as missing aftr the attack at Ypres on Oct 9th. He was no seen at all during the engagement. A Court of Enquiry has been lately held of which I was president and the finding was "Missing presumed to be Killed". He was one of our best officers and we were very grieved to lose him.
Letter from Capt H C Sandford
21st Battan
France 13.3.18
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He was in B Co VI Pltn. I knew him as officer in my platoon. On the 15th Octr we were all paraded and asked to give information about casualties. I heard Pte L Lindsay of the 21st Batn B Co VI Pltn (who was reported killed at Villers swraise? about 3 weeks ago) say that he saw Mr Walmsley killed. He also told me a few days before, that he had seen him lying dead at Zonnebeke. He gave me no further particulars, and I was not with the Battn at the time.
Inf: Cpl W Purkiss No 5396
AIIF 21 B VI
Havre Hospital
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http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1061142--1-.pdf
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Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Walmsley, of Kensington, have received advice that their son, Arthur George has gained a commission. He left Victoria as a private in September, 1915, and saw service at Pozieres and elsewhere in France.
WITH THE COLOURS. (1917, May 3). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5 Edition: Morning. Retrieved May 11, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74602452
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WALMSLEY - Killed in action in France, 9th October, 1917, previously reported missing, Lieut. Arthur George, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Walmsley, of Flemington; loving brother of Joe, May, Jack, Will, Vic., aged 22 years.
A precious one from us has gone
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
-Dad and Mum.
Family Notices. (1918, February 28). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 2 Edition: Morning. Retrieved June 4, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74605210
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Lieut. Arthur George Walmsley, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Walmsley, of Flemington, previously reported missing, was killed in action in France, on 9th October.
OUR SOLDIERS. (1918, February 28). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 2 Edition: Morning. Retrieved June 5, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74605202
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Date of death: 09/10/1917 Lieutenant , 21 Inf Bn
CWGC: "Son of Joseph Edward and Alice Walmsley, of 1, Chatham St., Flemington, Victoria. Native of Korumburra, Victoria".
- YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
War Service Commemorated
Kensington Methodist Church [A J* sic)]
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours
Regimental Register
In Memoriam
WALMSLEY. - In loving memory of our dearly
loved oldest son and brother, Lieut. Arthur
George Walmsley, late 21st Batt., who was
killed in action on October 9, 1917, somewhere
in Belgium; loved friend of Amy Kennedy, Footscray.
Not now, but in the coming years,
It may be in the better land,
We'll read the meaning of our tears.
And there sometime we'll, understand.
We'll know why clouds instead of sun
Were over many a cherished plan,
Why song has ceased when scarce begun,
Up there sometime we'll understand.
-("Geelong," Chatham street, Newmarket.)
Family Notices. (1918, October 9). The Argus
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1428952
WALMSLEY. In loving memory of our dearly
loved eldest son and brother, Lieutenant Arthur G.
Walmsley, 21st Batt., who was killed in action
at Passchendaele, October 9, 1917.
To dearly loved to ever be forgotten.
("Geelong," Chatham street, Newmarket.)
Family Notices. (1919, October 9). The Argus
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4675316
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