Wednesday 27 June 2007

5. Group of 10th Battalion crosses, Shrapnel Gully

The annotation to this image describes the graves as belonging to the 7th Battalion AIF but all 11 crosses which can be identified are in fact from the 10th Battalion AIF and were killed either on the 19th or 29th May 1915. The location is Shrapnel Gully Cemetery.
Note the soldier tending the graves in the background. Those in the first detail image, from the left, are:
Dvr Albert H Davey 894 KIA 19 May 1915 aged 26.
Pte Joseph Gurry 1751 KIA 19 May 1915.
Pte Charles H Allen 984 KIA 19 May 1915 aged 19.
The fourth very faint cross almost certainly shows the name Beswick. Pte John Routledge 1558 served under the name Beswick with the 10th Battalion and he was KIA 19 May 1015 aged 19.
Cpl Walter B Seaman 101 KIA 19 May 1915 aged 20.
The second detail image shows the three grave crosses of:
Almost certainly Pte Arthur S Johnson 801 KIA 19 May 1915. There is no W Johnson reported killed to match the cross inscription.
Pte Sydney B Holt 1357 KIA 29 May 1915.
Pte Thomas A Atwill 299 KIA 19 May 1915.
The third detail image shows:
Pte Benjamin T Thorpe 1184 KIA 19 May 1915.
Pte John G Murphy 1163 KIA 19 May 1915 aged 20.
Pte William Altree 1452 KIA 29 May 1915.