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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Sergeant A Paull, The Herald 15 Mar 1917

 

Paull O        Gunner    1213    Oswald         2 FAB    20    Railway porter    Single    C of E       

Address:    Kensington, Collett St, 14   

Next of Kin:    Paull, J, 14 Collett St, Kensington

Enlisted:    17 Aug 1914   

Embarked:     A9 Shropshire 20 Oct 1914 

Prior service:    31 Battery AFA    

Awards:  Military Medal

 

Relatives on Active Service:

Paull-L-R-Pte-19563 brother

 

Mentioned in this Publication:

One Thousand Days with the AIF

 

 

HONOR WON ON FIELD
Early in the war Sergeant Oswald Paull, who has been awarded the

Military Medal for bravery at Gallipoli, decided that his place was at the
front. He is now 22 years of age, and Is the son of Mr and Mrs John Paull,
of 14 Collett street, Kensington.


Sergeant Paull left Australia as a gunner attached to the first Austral
ian division. On his way to the front the transport upon which he travelled
sighted the Emden. He was in the landing at Galllpoli. Later he distinguished
himself ln the worst fighting at Ypres and on the Somme.


Before leaving for the front Sergeant Paull was employed as a porter at

Essendon and Moonee Ponds railway stations, but his ambition was to become a
wireless operator, and ln this department he was a promising student at
Stott's College, Russell street, when he enlisted.


Sergeant Paull has forwarded to his parents Interesting souvenirs of the
battlefield, made by himself. They include ornamental knives, a swastika,
and a map of Australia, all fashioned from German and Turkish shells.

HONOR WON ON FIELD (1917, March 15). The Herald

(Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 1.  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242683464

 

Recommendation for a Military Medal
9 June 1916
6th Battery 1213 Sergeant Oswald Paull.  For over three months he frequently showed great coolness in mending telephone lines under fire at Cape Helles.  During the period June 28th to July 5th, 1915 it was mainly due to his efforts that communication was maintained with the front line.

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068368/document/5501587.PDF  AWM

 

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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.

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours

Regimental Register

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