C company, 16 Battalion. A.I.F. WW1

[majm]

Hi,

I am sure you know of C W Bean. 

I quote a short paragraph from the Australian War Memorial’s website.  “The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australia’s involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by the official historian Charles Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The books, with their familiar covers, “the colour of dried blood” in the words of one reviewer, rapidly became highly regarded internationally. Bean’s work established the tradition and set the standard for all subsequent Australian official war histories.”

These are available online via this link to the AWM
 Volume II  http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/volume.asp?levelID=67888 and Chapter XXI opens at 7 August 1915.

The AWM also has Bean’s Diaries, Folders and Notebooks and these are also available online :
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/records/awm38/3drl606/

And there’s Unit Diaries in those online holdings also

I have found that Bean frequently mentions the names of individual soldiers.

There’s a deal of reading in those many links, however I feel sure that will not lessen your quest.

“Their names liveth forever more” 

Cheers,  JM

[MacGearailt]

Thanks Jenn, I hadn't come across that site before, I'm from Ireland and fairly new to the Australian sites. I hadn't comes across Charles Benn before either, That stuff is fantastic. Thank a lot, J.M.  I found Wilson's will on the A.N.A.  Tramore is where my Grand Uncle was from. Both Hannigan and Wilson were Stretcher bearers. Did all companies have there own bearers or were there individual stretcher bearer companies?

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

If you go to the Australian War Memorial site under Embarcation Rolls you will find some more information that might be useful to your research, you could probably get all of C Company members, view the digitised records.

http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_war_embarkation/

If you search in the Unit Name as "16 Infantry Battalion (December 1914)" you will get the whole battalion then you could search for the service numbers that match C Company.

Regards
Gerry

[MacGearailt]

Thanks Gerry, I have a copy of C company's  Embarcation Roll. It was sent to us from Australia before the inter net existed. It's nice to see it online. Thanks for all the replies.
A letter from Hannigan reads; " I had a narrow escape, a shell burst buried me and all my mates either got killed or wounded that was at the spot at the time. I have not seen any of them since. I was four days in Malta and then was sent on here to London.........I am aright now but weak, the doctor reckons I might have some of the fumes inside me................My mate Wilson was aright when I left, but the Turks had them cut off. He was not with me when I met with the accident, so I think I will have to go home without him."

[tropicalj]

A very good question about  the stretcher bearers

the internet is a wonderful  too.. found  this  bu tit is in regard to UK copmany in WW1  which I would imagine our own would have been  the same

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWstretcher.htm

you could ask  this  question on  this section of Rootschat, a lot of knowledgeable folk  there

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,397.0.html
Jenn

[LoganH]

http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/E01751

Second row from front, 2 'digger' - Sgt. Horace Patrick Wilson.
Group photo of 16th Battalion, 12th March 1918.
You can 'order' a copy here as well.(multiple options)

[MacGearailt]

Thanks Logan, I don't think I received a notice of your post and now the link appears to be broken. Sorry for not replying.

[Denise Murphy]

Hello MacGearailt

This is a full length portrait of SN 157 Horace Patrick WILSON. He had a tragic early life, and l am heartened to hear that the Miss M Farrell in his WILL was his fiance.
Best wishes.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/165083731

[MacGearailt]

Many thanks Denise,

I did a little bit research into Horace as he was the only comrade's name mentioned in my granduncle's letter. Miss Margaret Farrell was my grandmother's best friend and a bridesmaid at her wedding in 1918. Margaret ran a newsagents at the local railway station. She never married. According to some of my older relatives she 'was engaged to a soldier that was killed in the war.' It was not until I came across his will, that the penny dropped. One explanation is that Horace came to Tramore to pay his respects to John's family, met Margaret and got engaged.
From his military records, it is obvious that he was a very brave man and from the little that I have found out about him, he was also a true friend.