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8th LHR, Roll of Honour, John Henry Baker Topic: AIF - 3B - 8 LHR
8th LHR, AIF
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
John Henry Baker
John Henry Baker's name on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial
John Henry Baker
Service number: 208
Rank: Lance Corporal [L Cpl]
Unit: 8th Australian Light Horse
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of death: 11 August 1915
Cause of death: Died of wounds
Cemetery or memorial details: EGYPT 6 Chatby War Memorial Cemetery
War Grave Register notes: BAKER, Lce. Cpl. John Henry, 208. 8th Australian Light Horse. Died of wounds 11th Aug., 1915. Age 29. Son of William and Alice Baker, of Nareen, Coleraine, Victoria. Born at Colac, Victoria. K. 147.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
A brief military biography of John Henry Baker from The AIF Project:
11th LHR, AIF, Roll of Honour, Harold Rowton Stevens Topic: AIF - 4B - 11 LHR
11th LHR, AIF
11th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
Harold Rowton Stevens
Harold Rowton Stevens's name on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial
Harold Rowton Stevens
Service number: 840
Rank: Trooper [Tpr]
Unit: 11th Australian Light Horse
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of death: 7 August 1916
Cemetery or memorial details: Jerusalem Memorial, Israel
War Grave Register notes: STEVENS, Tpr. Harold Rowton, 840. 11th Australian Light Horse. 7th Aug., 1916. Age 27. Son of Frank James and Emma Stevens, of Colton Vale, Mackay, Queensland.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
A brief military biography of Harold Rowton Stevens from The AIF Project:
Regimental number
840
Place of birth
Colton Vale, Mackay, Queensland
School
Homebush State School, Queensland
Other training
Galton Agricultural College, Queensland
Religion
Congregational
Occupation
Farmer
Address
colton Vale, Homebush Road, Mackay, Queensland
Marital status
Single
Age at embarkation
25
Next of kin
Father, Frank James Stevens, colton Vale, Homebush Road, Mackay, Queensland
8th LHR, Roll of Honour, Hubert Roulstone Clifford Currie Topic: AIF - 3B - 8 LHR
8th LHR, AIF
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
Hubert Roulstone Clifford Currie
Hubert Roulstone Clifford Currie's name on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial
Hubert Roulstone Clifford Currie
Service number: 884
Rank: Corporal [Cpl]
Unit: 8th Light Horse Regiment
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of death: 7 August 1915
Cause of death: Killed in action
Cemetery or memorial details: Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey
War Grave Register notes: CURRIE, Cpl. Hubert Roulstone Clifford, 884. 8th Light Horse Regt. Killed in action 7th Aug., 1915. Son of the Rev. James Roulstone Currie, of Stoke St., Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia. Native of Tarnagulla. 5.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
A brief military biography of Hubert Roulstone Clifford Currie from The AIF Project:
His rank on the Nominal Roll is incorrect. It should be Corporal.
Place of death or wounding
Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age at death
25
Place of burial
No known grave
Commemoration details
The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 5), Gallipoli, Turkey
The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.
The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.
The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial
6
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records
Son of the Rev. James Rpulstone CURRIE, Stoke Street, Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia.
Other details
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
To be Corporal, 10 May 1915.
Transferred from reinforcements and taken on strength, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Gallipoli, 5 August 1915.
Missing, 7 August 1915; subsequently determined killed in action, 7 August 1915.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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