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07-01-17, 04:21 PM
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Father & son,Gallipoli,1915...
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Infantrymen and lighthorsemen in a trench on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The lighthorseman on the left at the back who is smoking a pipe is 211 Trooper Andrew Powell Yeates, 9th Light Horse, aged 54, father to the soldier in the foreground, his son 1103 Private James August Yeates, 3rd Australian General Hospital (AGH). Both men enlisted in 1914. Previously thought to be Ernest Sidney Cavalier (No 581, 22nd Battalion, 6th Brigade) and Ronald Ernest Cavalier (No 854, 4th Battery, 1st Division). http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/it...ect/205020949#
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07-01-17, 05:10 PM
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Hi Voltigeur
some further info to your post of the father son pic father Andrew Powell YEATES Regimental number 211 Date of birth 23 June 1859 Place of birth Wild Dog Creek, nr Mt Remarkable, South Australia Religion Roman Catholic Occupation Auctioneer and agent Marital status Single Age at embarkation 44 (54) Next of kin Louisa Rebecca Yeates, Jamestown, South Australia Enlistment date 11 September 1914 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name 9th Light Horse Regiment, B Squadron AWM Embarkation Roll number 10/14/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A10 Karroo on 11 February 1915 Rank from Nominal Roll Private Unit from Nominal Roll 9th Light Horse Regiment Fate Died of wounds 30 August 1915 Place of burial At sea Commemoration details The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 9), Gallipoli, Turkey son James August YEATES Regimental number 1103 Place of birth Orroroo South Australia Religion Church of England Occupation Warehouseman Address Orroroo, South Australia Marital status Single Age at embarkation 22 Next of kin Mother, Mrs Jane Yeates, 5 Marlborough Street, Malvern, South Australia Enlistment date 14 September 1914 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name Field Ambulance 4, Section B AWM Embarkation Roll number 26/47/1 Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board TRANSPORT A35 Berrima on 22 December 1914 Rank from Nominal Roll Staff Sergeant Unit from Nominal Roll 3rd Australian General Hospital Fate Returned to Australia 3 December 1919
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07-01-17, 07:27 PM
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Thanks BC for your help it's appreciated and also a thousand thanks to the Australian War Memorial for their records keeping...
 Jo
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"There truly exists but one perfect order: that of cemeteries. The dead never complain and they enjoy their equality in silence." - “There are things we know that we know,” “There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld, before the Iraqi Invasion,2003. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
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07-01-17, 08:22 PM
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