Aussie query for Cam or Vin

5 February 2002, 12:32 AM

G'day Cobbers!!
There are 25 AFC personnel buried in a churchyard in Leighterton, here in the UK.
They belonged to the AFC training squadrons based over here in 1918-19. *Most (not all), are registered on the CWGC database, and I was wondering if their names are also commemorated over in Oz. They saw no action, they were trainees and most, if not all, of their deaths were the result of training accidents.
I don't have time at the mo' to post the whole list...But here is a random sample of names:
2nd Lt.Geoffrey Dunster Allen died 7 Sept 1918
W.O. Thomas Clutterbuck died 28 Aug 1918
2nd Lt Williiam Parkes died 1 Sept 1918
Cpl (Cadet)Ernest Howard Jeffreys 1 Aug 1918.

Best Regards
Paul

5 February 2002, 01:15 AM

I'm not Cam or Vin but a friend of them both.

In answer to your question - Yes, they are remembered.

The Australian War Memorial has a cloister with the names of nigh on 100,000 Australians who died on active service in all the wars we have been invloved in. *Their names are there because I have checked in the past.

There is a little book called 'ANZACS OVER ENGLAND - The Australian Flying Corps in Gloucestershire 1918-19' written by David Goodland and Alan Vaughan - Alan Sutton Publishing 1992 which tells the story of the Australian training squadrons and it has the names of those 25 Australians buried in the Leighterton churchyard.

P.S. Hawker! What a good Aussie name!

Vin · 5 February 2002, 01:28 AM

Paul,

Gordon's response beat mine in time and quality. I checked out two of those you listed, Clutterbuck and Jeffries (spelt Jefferys) at the Australian War Memorial Site.

www.awm.gov.au

and found them both listed there and record extracted

http://www.awm.gov.au/database/133.asp?que...buck&id=09-173A

http://www.awm.gov.au/database/133.asp?que...freys&id=27-031

You could cross reference the others.

As a matter of interest, is there anything unusual about their graves at Leighterton ? I mean, unusual headstone ? segregated ?

Vin

5 February 2002, 01:50 AM

Gordon and Vin,
Thanks for the prompt reply!
A friend told me about Leighterton and the graves there, and I've just got back from the University library, having found the book Anzacs over England....So bugger work!!..I'm set up for the rest of the day now!!
Thanks again guys.
Cheers
Paul

5 February 2002, 05:14 PM

Paul,

>There are 25 AFC personnel buried in a churchyard
>in Leighterton, here in the UK.

I wonder if you are interested in helping us, on the Australian Flying Corps page we are currently rebuilding Mark Lax's AFC Roll Of Honour List and adding more detail to the Roll of Honour entries. Each Roll Of Honour entry is intended to have a Service Card, Portrait, Bio, Roll of Honour Card and picture of the gravesite. For the AFC personnel in the UK I have photos of A.Morgan, E.Treadwell, P.Forsyth and W.Herford. All courtesy of Steve Cox's research, another Cotswold local. If you are in the area of the graves, it would be great if you can take photographs of each one for the Australian Flying Corps page. We would really appreciate it.

The complete Roll Of Honour from the old AFC site http://www.australianflyingcorps.org/mkiii/afc_roh.htm, the partially rebuilt new Roll Of Honour page, http://www.australianflyingcorps.org/rollofhonour.html and an example of a complete Roll Of Honour entry in the form of Andrews relo, William Lord http://www.australianflyingcorps.org/peopl...ordwilliam.html.

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