Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Stapleton B T        Driver    1575    Bernard Thomas            2 FAB    28    Labourer    Single    C of E       

Address:    Ascot Vale, South St, 26   

Next of Kin:    Stapleton, Thomas, father, 26 South St, Ascot Vale   

Enlisted:    20 Oct 1914       

Embarked:     A9 Shropshire 20 Oct 1914   

One Thousand Days with the AIF

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

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