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8th Battalion AIF
No. 4870 Pte. D.A. Quinlan
MIA 20.9.17 -- Belgium
The
picture is from the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. Where the
names of 250,000 MIA British Soldiers are listed.
Picture
submitted by his Great, Great Nephew, Kevin Mears --
5th Anzacs, AIF
Josef Seidl, son of a farmer from Grubhof.
4. Kompagnie, 28. (bay.) Infanterie - Regiment.
Died 11 August 1917 in Rumania at the age of 20 years and 6 months.
Photo submitted by his cousin,
Lou Brown - 8.K/JR459
NCO Arthur Astle
A Troop, South Nott's Hussars
Arthur Astle (is back row center) was RSM of the regiment during the war, spent most of the war in the middle east and survived the war, dying in 1949.
Photo submitted by his great grandson,
Paul Astle - 2nd Battn. RWF
Sgt. H J Williams, 216th Toronto Bantam Regt. who was
transferred out to the 256th Railway Construction Batt., and then to the 11th Res. Battn. where he was finally invalided out due to his flat feet. He survived the war.
Photo submitted by his grandson,
Craig Williams - PPCLI |
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Pte. Caesar Krauss
79 Division, 313th Infantry Regt. AEF
Picture
submitted by his grandson, Mark Anderson - 12 MWK
1st Lt. Oscar Berg at Fort Hull (now called Edgewood Arsenal), Maryland.
Photo submitted by his great nephew,
Tim Carr - 8.K/JR459
Ptes Jack and Joe Astle
Sherwood Foresters
Jack was gased in 1917 and invalided out of service, he lived until 1941. Joe was KIA, 1916.
Photo submitted by his great nephew,
Paul Astle - 2nd Battn. RWF
The fellow with the moustache is Pvt. AA Simmons, 84th CEF,
(75th Batt.) Pvt. Simmons was killed in action on the last day
of the Somme, Nov. 18 1916 at the age of 43.
Photo submitted by his great grandson,
Craig Williams - PPCLI
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