Topic: BatzWF - Westn Front
The Battle of Poelcappelle
Belgium, 9 October 1917
Australian Imperial Force
Roll of Honour
Poppies on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have given their lives in service of Australia during the Battle of Poelcappelle, Belgium, 9 October 1917.
Roll of Honour
David Ford ADAM, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Albert Sydney ALEY, 4th Infantry Battalion.
William Walker ALLAN, 4th Field Artillery Brigade.
Samuel ANDREW, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Samuel Charles ANDREWS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Donald Goldsmith ARMSTRONG, 21st Infantry Battalion.
John Alexander ARMSTRONG, 5th Machine Gun Company.
Norman Leslie ARMSTRONG, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Charles Donaldson ASHER-SMITH, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest Walter ATKINSON, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Alexander Douglas AULD, 20th Infantry Battalion.
George Lake AUSTIN, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Harry Duff BADMINGTON, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Bertie Clarence BARTLETT, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William BEATTIE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William John BELL, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Francis Reginald BENNETT, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert Victor BENSON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Edward BETTAM, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
George BLAKE, 28th Infantry Battalion.
William BLYTH, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Benjamin BOLLINGHAM, 21st Infantry Battalion.
George Ernest BOLTON, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Sydney Stanna BOND, 25th Infantry Battalion.
John BONE, 6th Machine Gun Company.
John BOOTH, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William Joseph Bently BOTT, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Patrick Dennis BOURKE, 25th Infantry Battalion.
Robert Bruce BRADFORD, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Joseph Edward BREEN, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Stephen Prosser BRETT, 26th Infantry Battalion.
David Robert BRIGGS, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Bede Patrick BRODERICK, 20th Infantry Battalion.
John BROWN, 3rd Machine Gun Company.
Sidney Feltham BULL, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Frederick William BULLING, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Edward BURKE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William Malcolm BURKE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Samuel Ernest BURLEY, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Hugh William BURNS, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Wesley BUTTSWORTH, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Donald CAMPBELL, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
John Donald CAMPBELL, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Thomas CAMPION, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Joseph Elisha CARTER, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Henry Douglas Vyner CASWELL, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Alfred John Maurice CHAUNCY, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Jens CHRISTIANSEN, 26th Infantry Battalion.
Robert John CLARK, 26th Infantry Battalion.
Henry CLARKE, 28th Infantry Battalion.
Raymond James CLARKE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
James CLEARY, 19th Infantry Battalion.
William Thomas CLEMENTS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Robert COGHILL, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Wilfred Edgar COLE, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Vivian Vincent COLLINS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Francis Fabian COMAN, 25th Infantry Battalion.
Harvey James COOK, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Cecil Leonidas COOPER, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Robert COOPER, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Hubert Hume CORNEY, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Ernest Walter CORRIE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Thomas COSGROVE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Robert COUSTLEY, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Albert Thomas COWARD, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Allan Marmaduke CRAWLEY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
James McLean CROCKETT, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
John CROKER, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Norman CRONIN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Harold Thomas CRUSE, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Douglas William Sinclair CUMPER, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Innes Clare CUNNINGHAM, 17th Infantry Battalion.
James Douglas CUNNINGHAM, 21st Infantry Battalion.
John CURRIE, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Patrick Jerome DALY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Alfred DANMAN, 26th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur DAVEY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Michael Patrick DAVEY, 25th Infantry Battalion.
Alfred DE FOREST, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Albert DECKER, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Hector Leslie DESLANDES, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Wesley William DEWAR, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Glen Mervyn DICKENS, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Bertie Ike DICKERSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Henry James DIETRICH, 21st Infantry Battalion.
William DINGLEY, 20th Infantry Battalion.
John Gallus DIXON, 18th Infantry Battalion.
William DODD, 17th Infantry Battalion.
John Samuel DONALDSON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Alfred DONOVAN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Frederick Arthur DOUBLEDAY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Edward Percy DUNN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Leo Lachlan DUNNE, 18th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest DUNSTAN, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Martin James DURKAN, 26th Infantry Battalion.
William DWYER, 21st Infantry Battalion.
John DYNES, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Ernest EAST, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Gilbert Piner Ellis EDMONDS, 3rd Machine Gun Company.
Charles Crichton EDWARDS, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest ERSKINE, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Charles EVANS, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Daniel George EVANS, 19th Infantry Battalion.
John Colvin EVANS, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Basil FARR, 21st Infantry Battalion.
John FARRELL, 9th Infantry Battalion.
Gustave Henry FECHNER, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Ernest James FIELD, 24th Infantry Battalion.
George Walter FIELD, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
William Alfred FISH, 29th Infantry Battalion.
Carl David FISHER, 21st Infantry Battalion.
David Henderson FLEMING, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Edward Sandilands FLEMING, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William Harvey FOAT, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest FOSDICK, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Thomas George FOSTER, 12th Infantry Battalion.
Raymond George FOUNTAIN, 18th Infantry Battalion.
Frederick FOWKE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Donald William FRASER, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Frank Arthur FRASER, 18th Infantry Battalion.
William Osmond FROST, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Michael GAFFNEY, 20th Infantry Battalion.
James Porter GEMMELL, 24th Infantry Battalion.
John GIRVAN, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
John Putnam GLENISTER, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Elwyn Samuel GOULD, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Frank Gordon GRANGE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
George Hewitt GRAY, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Bert William GREATHEAD, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest Raymond GREEN, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Robert Charles Gordon GREIG, 6th Machine Gun Company.
George Thomas GUINEA, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Albert Charles HALES, 18th Infantry Battalion.
William Robert Nathan HALLAS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Harry HANN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Jack HARDISTY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Stanley William HARRIS, 20th Infantry Battalion.
James William HARWOOD, 25th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert Bruce HATTON, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Marceau Norbert Francis HAUTRIVE, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
William HAWKINS, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Russell Highfield HAWSE, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Percy HAYCROFT, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Stanley Alexander HEATHCOTE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
William HEHIR, 17th Infantry Battalion.
George Thomas HEMSLEY, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Charles HERBERT, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Percy James HESSELWOOD, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest HEWITT, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William HICKEY, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Kenneth Charles HILL, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Stephen Meddings HILL, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Charles James HIVON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Douglas HOGAN, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Frederick HOLDEN, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Edward William Thomas HOLLINGUM, 27th Infantry Battalion.
John Frederick HOLMES, 21st Infantry Battalion.
William Robin HOOD, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Joseph Benjamin Robert HORNE, 6th Machine Gun Company.
William Henry HOWES, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Albert James Arthur HUCKER, 26th Infantry Battalion.
John HUDSON, 18th Infantry Battalion.
Walter Thomas HUDSWELL, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Claude Clark HUGHES, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Vincent Leopold HULL, 18th Infantry Battalion.
Leslie Freeman HUMMERSTON, 24th Infantry Battalion.
George Herbert HUNT, 9th Infantry Battalion.
Bertie James HUNTER, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Harold HURST, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Norman Ramsey IRVINE, 4th Field Artillery Brigade.
Leslie Raymond JACK, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Clifford Pascoe JEFFERY, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Herbert JEPHCOTT, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Ernest Fairfax JOHNSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert JONES, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Stephen Ros Septimus JONES, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Rupert Thomas JOSE, 28th Infantry Battalion.
James JURY, 27th Infantry Battalion.
William Jacob JUSTIN, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Cyrus Holmes KELLY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Henry KELLY, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Malcolm Wallace KENNEDY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Percy William Edward KENNEY, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Frank Wilfred KETTERIDGE, 21st Infantry Battalion.
William KNOTT, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William Walter KNOWLES, 21st Infantry Battalion.
James Horace LANE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Randal Ruben LARCOMBE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Edward Vincent LAWLESS, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Andrew John LAWSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Claude Hamilton LE QUESNE, 5th Machine Gun Company.
Reginald Arthur LEAK, 10th Infantry Battalion.
Charles William LENTON, 5th Machine Gun Company.
James Gordon LESLIE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Victor Gerald LEWIS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Francis Heathcote LONGMORE, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
James Purves LOWRIE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Edward John LUCK, 7th Field Artillery Brigade.
Edward Frank LUMB, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Thomas Betram LYNCH, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
William LYON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Edward John LYONS, 6th Machine Gun Company.
John Maher LYONS, 17th Infantry Battalion.
James MABER, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Lewis Rowland MACE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Sidney Watkins MADIGAN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Stephen MAGIN, 28th Infantry Battalion.
Cornelius John MAHONY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Claude Angus MALONEY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William MANSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William MARSHALL, 17th Infantry Battalion.
James Vernon MATHIESON, 4th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert MAXWELL, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Percy Albert MAYHEW, 20th Infantry Battalion.
George MAYNARD, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Frank MCAULIFFE, 19th Infantry Battalion.
James MCCORMACK, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Murdoch MCDONALD, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Thomas MCDONNELL, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Alexander Robert MCDOWELL, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William Angus MCINNES, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Frank MCINTOSH, 21st Infantry Battalion.
James MCKENZIE, 4th Infantry Battalion.
David Simpson MCMURRAY, 26th Infantry Battalion.
Norman Archibald Morris MCMURTRIE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
James MCNAMARA, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
John Henry MEADOWS, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Robert William MELLOR, 28th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest Henry MILDENHALL, 21st Infantry Battalion.
William MILLER, 12th Infantry Battalion.
Cornelius Francis MINEHAN, 24th Infantry Battalion.
William Edward MITCHELL, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Harold Armour MOLONY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Robert MONTGOMERY, 24th Infantry Battalion.
George MOONEY, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Edgar Athling MORRIS, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William Joseph MORRIS, 6th Machine Gun Company.
James Walter MORRISON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Lewis James Carter MUFFETT, 18th Infantry Battalion.
William Walter MURPHY, 24th Infantry Battalion.
George Gilbert MURRAY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
John Hotson MURSELL, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Norman Charles NATION, 24th Infantry Battalion.
William NEIL, 10th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest Crego NEW, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert NEWTON, 10th Infantry Battalion.
Bryon Fitzgerald NICHOLAS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Sylvester James NIMMO, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Archibald NORFOLK, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Alfred Henry OCKWELL, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Edwin John O'NEILL, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Oswald William Thomas ORCHARD, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Studley ORGAN, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Henry Ernest ORTH, 9th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Thomas PACKER, 28th Infantry Battalion.
Frederick George PAGE, 5th Machine Gun Company.
Charles Leo PALMER, 17th Infantry Battalion.
John PALMER, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Vivian PARKHURST, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Benjamin Harrison PARKIN, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Frederick James PAYNE, 18th Infantry Battalion.
James PEACOCK, 21st Infantry Battalion.
John Francis Augustus PERRY, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Stuart Graham PETERKIN, 26th Infantry Battalion.
Karl PETTERSON, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Reginald James PICKETT, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Albert Charles PIKE, 18th Infantry Battalion.
Melville John PILGRIM, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Reginald Charles PILVEN, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Walter PINKERTON, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Frank Warren PINKHAM, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Herbert Lancelot PLACE, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Montgomery POINTER, 24th Infantry Battalion.
George POLLOCK, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Alexander Rose POPE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Andrew Petrie PORTER, 26th Infantry Battalion.
William PORTEUS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Terence POWER, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Fielder PRIOR, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Cecil Claude PUDNEY, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Harold Seymour RAY, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Ernest REECE, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Ewen McPherson REID, 20th Infantry Battalion.
John Stanley REID, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Mayne Ross REID, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Alfred Edward REYNOLDS, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Giulio Cyril REYNOLDS, 9th Infantry Battalion.
Reuben Rupert RICARDO, 29th Infantry Battalion.
William Joseph RICHARDS, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Joseph RICHARDSON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Thomas RICHINGS, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Robert Wilfred ROBERTSON, 27th Infantry Battalion.
John ROGERSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Thomas Lawrence ROSE, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Harry Forster RUTLEDGE, 7th Field Artillery Brigade.
Walter Tunks RYLAND, 19th Infantry Battalion.
William SALES, 28th Infantry Battalion.
Edward Wilson SANDERSON, 28th Infantry Battalion.
James Hutcheson SANDFORD, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Oliver SAUNDERS, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Claude Greybrook SCHWONBERG, 17th Infantry Battalion.
John Dougald SCOTT, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Kenneth Lancelot SCOTT, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Adam SCROGGIE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Robert John SELKRIG, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Stanley Gordon SHAVE, 9th Infantry Battalion.
William Alexander SHAW, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Norman Hearne SHEPARD, 24th Infantry Battalion.
William SHERRIFF, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Albert Cornelius SHIELDS, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William Henry SIEBERT, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur SILL, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Abraham SILVERMAN, 20th Infantry Battalion.
John George SIMPSON, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Charles Frank SKEAD, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Alexander SKENE-SMITH, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Clifford Charles SMERDON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Albert Arthur SMITH, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Claude Lester SMITH, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Hedley Hilton SMITH, 20th Infantry Battalion.
William Leslie SMITH, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Ernest Richmond SNOWDEN, 26th Infantry Battalion.
Alexander Arthur Claude STIFF, 17th Infantry Battalion.
John STONEHOUSE, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert John STRONG, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Joseph Bevan SUMPTER, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Henry SUTCLIFFE, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Archibald Percy SUTHONS, 18th Infantry Battalion.
John SWAN, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Charles Walter SYKES, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur William SYMONDS, 11th Infantry Battalion.
William Pascoe SYMONDS, 11th Infantry Battalion.
Carlisle Clinton TAINSH, 27th Infantry Battalion.
Eric Austin TATE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Henry Joseph TAYLOR, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
George William THOMPSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Harold Lewis THOMPSON, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Stephen Walter TIBBALLS, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Harold Arthur TINGLE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur Ernest TIPP, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Herbert Reginald TOLLIS, 19th Infantry Battalion.
William Arthur TOURRIER, 22nd Infantry Battalion.
Ernest James TURNBULL, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Edward TURNER, 17th Infantry Battalion.
John Henry TURNER, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Frederick Albert TYERS, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Charles Alexander UEBEL, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Philip Edward UTTING, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Frederick William VALE, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Clarence Roy VENNELL, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Ernest James VERRILLS, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Oscar Vincent VIGAR, 10th Infantry Battalion.
Richard Frederick VOLLER, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Arthur George WALMSLEY, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Robert Butler WALSH, 21st Infantry Battalion.
Arthur WARREN, 21st Infantry Battalion.
George Goulburn WARREN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
William Lyall Nicolson WATSON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William Henry WATT, 24th Infantry Battalion.
John WATTS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
Edwin WELLINGTON, 21st Infantry Battalion.
William WHEATE, 20th Infantry Battalion.
Francis Henry Colombo WHEELER, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Alexander WHYTE, 17th Infantry Battalion.
William Francis WILKIE, 19th Infantry Battalion.
Charles Morrice WILLIAMS, 24th Infantry Battalion.
William Oswell WOMSLEY, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Brinley Pearce WOODLAND, 18th Infantry Battalion.
Reginald Collins WORTHINGTON, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Jack Berryman WRIGLEY, 6th Machine Gun Company.
Herbert Jackson YEO, 17th Infantry Battalion.
Edwin St Clair YEOMAN, 23rd Infantry Battalion.
Harold William YOUNG, 25th Infantry Battalion.
Lest We forget
Further Reading:
The Battle of Poelcappelle, Belgium, 9 October 1917
The Battle of Poelcappelle, Belgium, 9 October 1917, Roll of Honour
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: The Battle of Poelcappelle, Belgium, 9 October 1917, Roll of Honour
