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Friday, 6 February 2009
2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade, AIF, Roll of Honour Topic: AIF - 2B - 2 LHB
2nd LHB, AIF
2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade
Roll of Honour
Poppies on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men enrolled within the 2nd Light Horse Brigade known to have served and lost their lives during the Great War.
Bert Schramm's Diary, 6 February 1919 Topic: Diary - Schramm
Diaries of AIF Servicemen
Bert Schramm
During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, 2823 Private Herbert Leslie Schramm, a farmer from White's River, near Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsular, kept a diary of his life. Bert was not a man of letters so this diary was produced with great effort on his behalf. Bert made a promise to his sweetheart, Lucy Solley, that he would do so after he received the blank pocket notebook wherein these entries are found. As a Brigade Scout since September 1918, he took a lead part in the September 1918 breakout by the Allied forces in Palestine. Bert's diary entries are placed alongside those of the 9th Light Horse Regiment to which he belonged and to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to which the 9th LHR was attached. On this basis we can follow Bert in the context of his formation.
Bert Schramm's Diary, 6 February 1919
Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 5 - 8 February 1919
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Diaries
Bert Schramm
Thursday, February 6, 1919
Bert Schramm's Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.
Bert Schramm's Diary - Has been raining heavily and very cold. Everyone is miserable. I wish to heavens we could get away home.
The following is a list in alphbetical order of the men who comprised the Headquarters Section of the 10th LHR and are recorded on the embarkation rolls as having embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 February 1915.
In listing the men, they are only identified by full name and AIF Regimental Service Number or as an officer as their rank status fluctuated often, even at embarkation, making it an impossible to give each man their correct rank on embarkation. Officers were not given a service number during the Great War. [See: The Australian Light Horse - Structure, Regimental Service Number.]
Edward William Arundel, AIF Regimental Service Number: 541.
William John Atkinson, AIF Regimental Service Number: 28.
Frank Lee Bach, AIF Regimental Service Number: 6.
James Edwin Bax, AIF Regimental Service Number: 37.
Lyell Cecil Bean, AIF Regimental Service Number: 25.
James Bentley, Officer.
Henry Berry, AIF Regimental Service Number: 19.
Noel Murray Brazier, Officer.
Horace Bertram Brede, AIF Regimental Service Number: 10.
John Anderson Brown, AIF Regimental Service Number: 11.
John Hugh Burns, AIF Regimental Service Number: 510.
Daniel Bygraves, AIF Regimental Service Number: 32.
Thomas James Byrne, AIF Regimental Service Number: 27.
Frederick William Carter, AIF Regimental Service Number: 382.
George Frederick Carthew, AIF Regimental Service Number: 12.
Frank Marshall Dobbin, AIF Regimental Service Number: 29.
James William Everington, AIF Regimental Service Number: 1.
Ernest Robert Fitt, AIF Regimental Service Number: 8.
James Fitzmaurice, AIF Regimental Service Number: 30.
Frederick Leopold Fraser, AIF Regimental Service Number: 22.
William Gilbert, AIF Regimental Service Number: 35.
Rupert George Gunn, AIF Regimental Service Number: 24.
Herbert Hallett, AIF Regimental Service Number: 524.
Frederick William Hay, AIF Regimental Service Number: 5.
Charles Robert Heppingstone, AIF Regimental Service Number: 508.
Montague Charles Hyatt, AIF Regimental Service Number: 3.
Robert Edward Jackson, Officer.
Neil Sydney Lancet, AIF Regimental Service Number: 119.
Reginald Legge, AIF Regimental Service Number: 7.
Allan Joseph Love, Officer.
Joseph David Lown, AIF Regimental Service Number: 20.
Beresford Mcmahon, AIF Regimental Service Number: 31.
John Flood Nagle, AIF Regimental Service Number: 26.
William Henry Pescud, AIF Regimental Service Number: 509.
Raymond Quartermaine, AIF Regimental Service Number: 461.
Thomas Edward Raine, AIF Regimental Service Number: 134.
Norman John Regan, AIF Regimental Service Number: 14.
Walter Charles Robinson, Officer.
George Rosevear, AIF Regimental Service Number: 2.
Bertram Simpson, AIF Regimental Service Number: 15.
Hubert Ulrich, AIF Regimental Service Number: 17.
Claude Henry Vautin, AIF Regimental Service Number: 540.
Ebenezer Ward, AIF Regimental Service Number: 18.
Edward Alexander Weston, Officer.
Robert Wray Woods, AIF Regimental Service Number: 511.
The full Embarkation Roll for the 10th LHR Headquarters Section may by downloaded from the Australian War Memorial at the following address:
Bert Schramm's Diary, 5 February 1919 Topic: Diary - Schramm
Diaries of AIF Servicemen
Bert Schramm
During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, 2823 Private Herbert Leslie Schramm, a farmer from White's River, near Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsular, kept a diary of his life. Bert was not a man of letters so this diary was produced with great effort on his behalf. Bert made a promise to his sweetheart, Lucy Solley, that he would do so after he received the blank pocket notebook wherein these entries are found. As a Brigade Scout since September 1918, he took a lead part in the September 1918 breakout by the Allied forces in Palestine. Bert's diary entries are placed alongside those of the 9th Light Horse Regiment to which he belonged and to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to which the 9th LHR was attached. On this basis we can follow Bert in the context of his formation.
Bert Schramm's Diary, 5 February 1919
Bert Schramm's Handwritten Diary, 5 - 8 February 1919
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Diaries
Bert Schramm
Wednesday, February 5, 1919
Bert Schramm's Location - Tripoli, Lebanon.
Bert Schramm's Diary - I cannot understand not receiving any mail as this is the first time I haven't received letters since I have been here. Latest semi official news says we embark for home sometime in May. So God help us if we have to put another three or four months in this cursed place, enough to drive one mad. But of course growling will do me no good.
Lille, France, August 16 to 17, 1918 Topic: BatzWF - Westn Front
Lille
France, 16-17 August 1918
Lille, situated fifteen kilometres south-east of Armentieres, France, was the scene of two famous air raids against German airfields on the city's western outskirts on 16 and 17 August 1918. Both attacks involved No. 2 and No. 4 squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps (the former equipped with S.E.5a fighters and the latter with Sopwith Camel scouts) along with two British squadrons of the 80th Wing, Royal Air Force - a total of 60-65 aircraft. The first raid was directed against Haubourdin, five kilometres southwest of the city, and the second at Lomme an equal distance to the city's north-west. The attacks were effectively carried out by the two Australian squadrons - No. 4 (under Captain Harry Cobby) leading, followed by No. 2 (Captain Murray Jones) - while the British squadrons kept guard above against approaching enemy aircraft. In what the Official History terms 'a riot of destruction', 54 enemy aircraft were wrecked on the ground along with workshops and hangars.
Extracted from the book produced by Chris Coulthard-Clark, Where Australians Fought - The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998, p. 155.
Additional References cited by Chris Coulthard-Clark:
F.M. Cutlack (1923) The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
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