Diaries and documents of John Dominic Palandri - Part 27

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Second World War, 1939–45
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CEMTITICATE Nationality AUSTRALLAN Number Rank Major Name PALANDTI, 71 3320 Regiment A.A.M.C. Certified that the above nanei WRepatriated Colonial Officer Prisoner of War“ is accomodated at 95 (Br) General Hospital. If in difficulties, return to the above Hospital. (R.A. STARK), Colonel, B.L.AR. Commanding 95 (Br) General Rist MiI, 1944. Hospital.
1940 SUBSTTTUTE FOR ARMY FORM M3050 The bearer of this document ..Maj.J.D.PALANDRI.......... is an Officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps and, as such is protestef under Uhe Provislons of tne GENEVA (ONVENTION 1949, Article 9, paragraph 1, and Article 21, paragraph 2. EGYPT. Hodren 4i.s.......24. S5JO79): Place................ A.D.M.S. 6 Aust Div. Commanding Officer. Date ...7.De6.40.....
e DIARY OF THE 2/7 FIELD AMBULANGES, A.I.F. It is regretted that this record of the unit's service in Libya, Greece and Crete, is sketchy and incomplete, but it is hoped that the main points of importance have been remembered and included. On returning to Mersa Matruhfrom Libya in the middle of March 1941, a complete diary of the campaign was compiled, together with seve- ral appendicesand a report of Major Palandri's month's service with the British Forces from 9 Dec. enwards, and copies prepared for despatch to Records Office, 2nd. Echelon. On arrival at Amriyah on 26 March, all transport and heavy baggage were sent immediately to Alexandria for transport to Greece, so that, during the withdrawal, all documents mentioned above, togethe with the Admission and Discharge Book, Operation List, and Death and Burials Record of the M.D.S. for Egypt, Libya, and Greece were In Crete the diarist, Major Palandri, brought up to date lost. to 18 May his complete rough notes, which he had saved, and handed them to the C.O.,whose eventual capture made their fate most un¬ certain. It is to be noted that from the commencement of the attack on Crete, on 20 May, all communications were severed between B.Coy. and H.Q. and A.Coys. sothat the diary from that date concerns almost entirely the doings of B.Coy. only. A further misfortune was suffered on the ist. June, when the Germans confiscated B.Coys. Admission and Discharge Book, and Death and Burials Record for its' A.D.S. at Adele, and refused to return them. This diary, has been compiled from memory, supplemented and checked by brief private records of three or four of B.Coy. ...... . . . . . .. . .. . . . . .... . . .....
e A brief resumee of work done by the 2/7 Fld. Ambulance, in Greece and Crete. ............................. The unit disembarked at Piraeus on 13 April 1941 and was taken to Voulos NO. 2 Camp, where it was preceded by the M.T.Section who had brought over our vehicles some days earlier. From the afternoon of 15 April to the morning of the 17 April, both in- clusive, a tented convalescent hospital was prepared and conducted for lightly wounded and sick in the camp area. The cases had been all brought down from the front. During the trip from Egypt, one ship carrying transport was hit, two of our drivers being wounded, one subsequently dying. On 17 April the unit moved by road and rail to the vicinity of Gravia. From this spot A. Coy moved forward and established an A.D.S. just south of Lamia, finally evacuatingthe position on the evening of 19 April, going into reserve about two miles south of Leleia, just off the main road. After a few hours at Gravia, H.Q. Coy. retired south and estab¬ lished the M.D.S. alongside the river where it was crossed by the main road near Leleia Station, from which location it with- drew due to bombing, on 20 April and re-established one mile north along the western limb of the Leleia-Gravia-Brallos-Leleia loop. B. Coy. established an A.D.S. on the Brallos Pass on 19 April, its' personnel being reinforced and relieved from time to time until the general with-drawal on 24 April. The work done by the A.D.S.s was reasonably heavy and that by the M.D.S.s consistently so throughout the period of action, though figures cannot be quoted for the reasons stated. From 19-23 April, B. Coy. con- ducted in addition to the A.D.S. a small dressing station, first at Gravia, whence enemy bombing forced it to evacuate, and then at Brallos. Total unit casualties during the period 17-24 April were six men wounded, none fatally. On 24 April, in accordance with orders from 19 Bde. the M.D.S.s left tentage and all equip- ment in position, and withdrew with transport, being joined later in the afternoon by B. Coy. personnel from the forward Aid Post. All went to the port of embarkation, which was reached during the night of 24-25 April. The transport vehicles were destroyed on 25th April, and embarkation was carried out during the night of 25-26 April, all but one man reaching Crete on 26 April. In Crete the unit was bivouaced at Neon Korion and H.0. Coy. on 29 April took charge from the 189 Fld. Amb. (British) of a small surgical Centre in the school, from which cases were evacuated to Souda and Kania. On %% 5 May A. Coy. established another post at Georgiopolis and on 12 May B. Coy. established another at Adele, h-5 miles east of Rethymon. The unit had brought no equipment to Crete and was using a little at Neon Korion left by the 189 Fld. Amb. Of this the barest necessites were given to the A. & B. Coys amounting to --1 pannier of mixed drugs and dressing, a few blan- kets and stretchers, and a few R.D. tents. On about 16 May, H.G. Coy. took over a small hospital at Varresis, just west of Georgio- polis. From the 5th and 12th May, A. and B. Coy. received sick from the troops in their area and'tfänsported them by stages to Souda and Kania on whatever vehicle happened to be passing.
on commencement of the German attack on 20 May, B.Coy. was cut off from the other two, of whom no definite news has since been received, and the following account concerns B.Coy. only. From the beginning, transport was a very serious problem, as in the Rethymon area there were for the use of the 2/1 and the 2/11 Btn. A.I.F. a D.I.D. two Greek Btns., and attached artillery and M.G. troops, etc. only three 3-tonners, two 15 and one 8 cwt. trucks. The B.Coy. A.D.S. expanded rapidly in size from 20-30 May by the erection in our olive grove of tents brought in from the Btns, and it treated Australian, a few English, German and Greek casualties. Operations (excluding head, chest and abdominal work) and all big dressings of all sections were carried out by Capt. Gallash and Capt. Mayrhofer in the Australian operating tent, but the Germans were allotted to their own operating tent from 24 May. The Greeks had most of their work done by three or four Greek M.O.s and medical students, two German M.O.s with orderlies looking after their own men from the 22-23 May. Our own equip- ment was finished on 22 May, after which was used German material brought in from the Btns. who also supplied us with parachutes and tents to be used in lieu of non-existant blankets. Rations were always a problem, the last being finished on May 30th. Evacuation from 2/1 and 2/11 Btns. was originally by 5 and 3 relays of bearers respectively, and later by trucks. With these, cases were hand carried to B. Echelon of 2/! Btn. thence by truck to Pigi village, hand-carried through the village to a waiting truck, thence to the A.D.S. or else left at a staging post in the village. Later, trucks came right through from B. Echelon, while German casualties were carried by 8 cwt. truck across "No-Mans Land" of the aerodrome to the A.D.S. This truck on one trip was machine-gunned from the air, one man of B.Coy. killed, another wounded, the English driver subsequently dying. After the first few days, 2/11 casualties were brought in by three tonner. Cases admitted were (approx.):- (about 22 deaths-) British 203 German Greek Aädmitted:- 631 Died 46 (approx.) Except for those patients who died and 110 German walking wounded who were sent to the P.O.W. Compound on 25-27 May, all cases were kept from the time of admission until 30 May. Communications west, to Souda and Kania, were cut by a party of Germans whe suc¬ ceeded in holding Rethymon, and proposals to evacuate by air or sea were declared not practicable by the officer Commanding Area. On 28 May Capt. Ryan, M.O. to 2/11 Btn. made contact with a German Officer and arranged for safe passage for a truck carrying British and German wounded to Georgiopolis, but the truck was eventually turned back by an enemy N.C.O. who apparently had recieved no instructions. Note:: In the first few days of the action, 2/1! Btn. transferred to the A.D.S. two German Medical Officers and about a dozen Orderlies from captured personnel, and to these fell the task of treating German casualties under our supervision. Sgd. J.D.P.
The post was first captured by a German detachment on 21 May, this detachment moving on after a couple of hours and leaving us to our own devices, and was eventually occupied on 30 May. The enemy immediately commenced evacuation of casualties by air to Athens, and, by ist June all German, a few Greek, and all but sixty (60) (approx.) British cases had been removed. These latter and a few Greek cases were transferred to a large building in Rethymon, which housed also our own personnel, 30 British prisoners, and upwards to 2,000 Greek prisoners. On June 5 Capt. Gallash and a few nursing orderlies departed by air for Athens in charge of our patients, and the unit personnel, including Capt. Carter, of the 2/1 Btn. who was attached to B.Coy. on 30 May, were transferred to Greece on 7-8 June. The period 20-30 May had been a most difficult one, and continuation of the work was made possible by the fact that Capts. Carter and Ryan, of the 2/1 and 2/11 Btns. had collected and sent to us so much German medical equipment. The only supplies received from our own people were two small batches dropped by air on 25 and 26 May, much of the first consignment being smashed on landing. Our casualties during the battle for Crete were one man killed and one wounded.
PIRAEUS. PERSORNEL. AND ATTACHED PERSONNEL OF 2/7 FIELD AMBULANCE A.I.F. .......... P.O.W. HoSPTTAL No.1. PIRAEUS. A MEDICAL STAFF: WK3235 Pte. Ticklie.L. --A.Coy. WK3328 Major Palandri.J.D.--B.Coy. WX3760 L/Cpl. Tucker.W.N. WX3351 Captain Mayrhofer.M. H.O." WK3724 Pte. Mellowship.K. WE4851 Pte. Solomons.P. B. PärLENTS. WX3942 Pte. Adams.K.J. B. Coy. WX2842 Pte. Shier.E.G. Nuplchl SnavR. 2. P.O.W. HoOSPITAL NO. 2. PIRAEUS. WX3124 Pte. Lassey.F. 3349 Capt. Gallash. F.E. WXAOOt Lutey.F. 3509 S/Sgt. Lawrence.K. Mauger.V.C. NXMOhS (hohh Sgt. Earle.E. Mayo.F.P.V (284 Malpas. A.H. Miller.G. 3902 Braithwaite.J.A. 3540 Cpl. 15712 Moore.J.A. Bray.H.W.A. WxAOHS Oswell.F.W. Drysdale.D.G. WX3685 Pearce.J.G. Ewins.A.J. WX6122 Preen.J. L/Cpl. Ferguson.M.G. Pugh.J.H. WX2883 WE45S4 Larkins.G.G. WX2910 Raine.A.W. WX3812 Pte. Armstrong.B.E. 43880 Rickman.A.A. WX285 Banks.G. B.3b 3616 Sanderson.J.R. Bassett.W.T. WXHO: Wx3668 Severn.H. WK453 Boag.L.C. Shier.W.J. 28 Clamp.G. WX750 Stewart.N.S. Curtis.P.J. WX481? 3619 Sutherland.F. WI3620 Eastland.H.W. Tillot.A.J. Fisher.E.P. WX2824 Webster.J. WACH: Fison.S.J. Willock.R.P. Gregg.C. WE4535 WX4811 Jackaway.R. SX2120 WX4536 Jones.G.S. WX3615 Kiernan.J.P. ............... WKAG47 cpl. Kinnear. F.D. WX3867 L/Cpl. Mackenzic. A.S. WX7O28 Pte..Beard. E.N. Beasley. R.J. Wxhioh Dewarboys. F.B. WX6483 WX3571 Elson. P. Feltham. W. H.9.C0Y. WX3678 WX5908 Kneale. B. WXAO32 Mills. S.W. WX217: Nicholson. D. Randolph. E. WXH792 WX5511 Williams. J. Wilson. C.B. WI3053

WX3328 Maj J.D PALANDRI                                                                            P.Bk 13585

— Date. Location. Signature.
Vaccination 4:6:40 Northam [[?]]
1     [[?]]
2     [[?]]
*T.A.B./2 1,2,3, } Oct'39 Rockingham [[?]]
3 7.4,41 [[Amirka?]] [[?]]  
4 June 40 Northam  
5 5 July 42 Berlin [[?]]
Cholera Inoculation 1      
2      
Other Inoculations 1 T/T1 June'40 Northam [[?]]
2 2 5/8/40 Northam  
3      
Artificial Dentures Supplied      
Chest-XRay May'40 Perth [[?]]
Prescription for Spectacles      
*T.A.B. (Mixed Typhoid, Paratyphoid A, and Paratyphoid B Vaccines) if given as two doses will be entered thus:—
T.A.B. 1-1-16 ____________ If given as one dose T.A.B./1 or three doses T.A.B./3
2 10-1-16 ____________      

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W.F. 38 (Revised June, 1943) CREDIT ADVICE TO PAYMASTER (DUPLICATE)
PARTICULARS NAME
Clothing Claim.          
C.57416,F. Major PALANDRI J.D.
T.S.4. No 27854. ARMY No. LINE No. AMOUNT
C.R. No 1020. WX3328 111/112 ₤25. - -
Unit. 110 (PERTH) MILITARY HOSPITAL. DATE 21.12.44. PAYBOOK NO. C346562
FIELD ORGANISATION SECTION
DISTRICT   DATE ENTERED. 12-1-45
ACCOUNTS CHECKED ENTERED BY. [[SGBishop?]]
OFFICE W.A. BY. R.D.S. Pay Sgt Hollywood
 

WX3328 Maj J.D PALANDRI                                                                            P.Bk 13585

                                                      MEDICAL

             -                                      DATE               LOCATION                  SIGNATURE

Vaccination                              4:6:40              Northam                      [[?]] 
                                            1,2,3} October '39   Rockingham              [[?]]

                                                     7.4.41                Amirkka  [[?]]             [[?]]

X RAY. 35 M.M.
WHD13
30 SEP. 1944
144159.
WESTERN COMMAND.

 

 

 

Book cover.

 

CERTIFICATE
Nationality AUSTRALIAN
Number WX 3328 Rank Major Name PALANDRI, J.
Regiment A.A.M.C.
Certified that the above named "Repatriated Colonial Officer
Prisoner of War“ is accomodated at 95 (Br) General Hospital.
If in difficulties, return to the above Hospital.


                                                                                    R.A. Stark


                                                                              (R.A. STARK), Colonel,
B.N.A.F.                                                           Commanding 95 (Br) General

21st May, 1944.                                                                  Hospital.

 

 

* HEADQUARTERS A.A.M.C. *

DEC 1940
6 AUST. DIV. AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCES


                                                                                       SUBSTITUTE FOR ARMY FORM
                                                                                                                                     W3050
 

The bearer of this document Maj J.D. PALANDRI
is an Officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps
and, as such is protested under the provisions of the
GENEVA CONVENTION 1929, Article 9, paragraph 1, and
Article 21, paragraph 2.
Place EGYPT.                                                                            H C Wisher  Colonel.
 Date 7 Dec 40.                                                                           A.D.M.S. 6 Aust Div.                                                                                                                             Commanding Officer.
 

 

                   DIARY OF THE 2/7 FIELD AMBULANCE, A.I.F.


It is regretted that this record of the unit's service in Libya,
Greece and Crete, is sketchy and incomplete, but it is hoped that
the main points of importance have been remembered and included.
On returning to Mersa Matruh/from Libya in the middle of March 1941,
a complete diary of the campaign was compiled, together with seve-

ral appendices/and a report of Major Palandri's month's service
with the British Forces from 9 Dec.^ 1940 onwards, and copies prepared
for despatch to Records Office, 2nd. Echelon.

 

On arrival at Amriyah on 26 March, all transport and heavy baggage
were sent immediately to Alexandria for transport to Greece, so
that, during the withdrawal, all documents mentioned above, together
with the Admission and Discharge Book, Operation List, and Death
and Burials Record of the M.D.S. for Egypt, Libya, and Greece were
lost.  In Crete the diarist, Major Palandri, brought up to date
to 18 May his complete rough notes, which he had saved, and handed
them to the C.O., whose eventual capture made their fate most un-

certain.


It is to be noted that from the commencement of the attack on
Crete, on 20 May, all communications were severed between B. Coy.
and H.Q. and A.Coys. so/that the diary from that date concerns
almost entirely the doings of B.Coy. only. A further misfortune
was suffered on the 1st. June, when the Germans confiscated B.Coys.
Admission and Discharge Book, and Death and Burials Record for
its' A.D.S. at Adele, and refused to return them. This diary,
has been compiled from memory, supplemented and checked by brief
private records of three or four of B.Coy.
...................................

 

               A brief resumee of work done by the 2/7 Fld. Ambulance,
                                         in Greece and Crete.
                                                  .............................
The unit disembarked at Piraeus on 13 April 1941 and was taken
to Voulos NO. 2 Camp, where it was preceded by the M.T.Section
who had brought over our vehicles some days earlier. From the
afternoon of 15 April to the morning of the 17 April, both in-

clusive, a tented convalescent hospital was prepared and conducted
for lightly wounded and sick in the camp area. The cases had been
all brought down from the front. During the trip from Egypt, one
ship carrying transport was hit, two of our drivers being wounded,
one subsequently dying. On 17 April the unit moved by road and
rail to the vicinity of Gravia. From this spot A. Coy moved
forward and established an A.D.S. just south of Lamia, finally
evacuating/the position on the evening of 19 April, going into
reserve about two miles south of Lelia, just off the main road.
After a few hours at Gravia, H.Q. Coy. retired south and estab¬
lished the M.D.S. alongside the river where it was crossed by
the main road near Leleia Station, from which location it with-

drew due to bombing, on 20 April and re-established one mile
north along the western limb of the Leleia-Gravia-Brallos-Leleia
loop.


B. Coy. established an A.D.S. on the Brallos Pass on 19 April,
its' personnel being reinforced and relieved from time to time
until the general with-drawal on 24 April. The work done by the
A.D.S.s was reasonably heavy and that by the M.D.S.s consistently
so throughout the period of action, though figures cannot be
quoted for the reasons stated. From 19-23 April, B. Coy. con-

ducted in addition to the A.D.S. a small dressing station, first
at Gravia, whence enemy bombing forced it to evacuate, and then
at Brallos. Total unit casualties during the period 17-24 April
were six men wounded, none fatally. On 24 April, in accordance
with orders from 19 Bde. the M.D.S.s left tentage and all equip-

ment in position, and withdrew with transport, being joined later
in the afternoon by B. Coy. personnel from the forward Aid Post.
All went to the port of embarkation, which was reached during
the night of 24-25 April. The transport vehicles were destroyed
on 25th April, and embarkation was carried out during the night
of 25-26 April, all but one man reaching Crete on 26 April.


In Crete the unit was bivouaced at Neon Korion and H.Q. Coy. on
29 April took charge from the 189 Fld. Amb. (British) of a small
surgical Centre in the school, from which cases were evacuated
to Souda and Kania. On // 5 May A. Coy. established another post
at Georgiopolis and on 12 May B. Coy. established another at Adele,
4-5 miles east of Rethymon. The unit had brought no equipment to
Crete and was using a little at Neon Korion left by the 189 Fld.
Amb. Of this the barest necessities were given to the A. & B. Coys
amounting to ½-1 pannier of mixed drugs and dressing, a few blan-

kets and stretchers, and a few R.D. tents. On about 16 May, H.Q.
Coy. took over a small hospital at Varresis, just west of Georgio-

polis. From the 5th and 12th May, [*UNTIL 20 MAY*] A. and B. Coy. received sick
from the troops in their area and tränsported them by stages to
Souda and Kania on whatever vehicle happened to be passing.

 

On commencement of the German attack on 20 May, B.Coy. was cut
off from the other two, of whom no definite news has since been
received, and the following account concerns B.Coy. only. From
the beginning, transport was a very serious problem, as in the
Rethymon area there were for the use of the 2/1 and the 2/11 Btn.
A.I.F. a D.I.D., two Greek Btns., and attached artillery and M.G.
troops, etc. only three 3-tonners, two 15 and one 8 cwt. trucks.


The B.Coy. A.D.S. expanded rapidly in size from 20-30 May by the
erection in our olive grove of tents brought in from the Btns,
and it treated Australian, a few English, German and Greek
casualties. Operations (excluding head, chest and abdominal work)
and all big dressings of all sections were carried out by Capt.
Gallash and Capt. Mayrhofer in the Australian operating tent,
but the Germans were allotted to their own operating tent from
24 May. The Greeks had most of their work done by three or four
Greek M.O.s and medical students, two German M.O.s with orderlies
looking after their own men from the 22-23 May. Our own equip-

ment was finished on 22 May, after which was used German material
brought in from the Btns. who also supplied us with parachutes
and tents to be used in lieu of non-existant blankets. Rations
were always a problem, the last being finished on May 30th.


Evacuation from 2/1 and 2/11 Btns. was originally by 5 and 3
relays of bearers respectively, and later by trucks. With these,
cases were hand carried to B. Echelon of 2/1 Btn. thence by truck
to Pigi village, hand-carried through the village to a waiting
truck, thence to the A.D.S. or else left at a staging post in the
village. Later, trucks came right through from B. Echelon, while
German casualties were carried by 8 cwt. trucks across "No-Mans
Land" of the aerodrome to the A.D.S. This truck on one trip was
machine-gunned from the air, one man of B.Coy. killed, another
wounded, the English driver subsequently dying. After the first
few days, 2/11 casualties were brought in by three tonner.
                          Cases admitted were (approx.):-
                                      British    203   (about 22 deaths-)
                                      German 360   (  "  18 " -)
                                      Greek        68   (  "  16  " -)


                                 Addmitted:- 631    Died 46 (approx.)


Except for those patients who died and 110 German walking wounded
who were sent to the P.O.W. Compound on 25-27 May, all cases were
kept from the time of admission until 30 May. Communications
west, to Souda and Kania, were cut by a party of Germans who suc-

ceeded in holding Rethymon, and proposals to evacuate by air or
sea were declared not practicable by the Officer Commanding Area.
On 28 May Capt. Ryan, M.O. to 2/11 Btn. made contact with a German
Officer and arranged for safe passage for a truck carrying British
and German wounded to Georgiopolis, but the truck was eventually
turned back by an enemy N.C.O. who apparently had recieved no
instructions.

 


)—
Note:-
           In the first few days of the action, 2/11 Btn. transferred
to the A.D.S., two German Medical Officers and about a dozen
Orderlies from captured personnel, and to these fell the task
of treating German casualties under our supervision.
 

                                                                     Sgd. J.D.P.

 

The post was first captured by a German detachment on 21 May,
this detachment moving on after a couple of hours and leaving
us to our own devices, and was eventually occupied on 30 May.
The enemy immediately commenced evacuation of casualties by air
to Athens, and, by 1st June all German, a few Greek, and all
but sixty (60) (approx.) British cases had been removed. These
latter and a few Greek cases were transferred to a large building
in Rethymon, which housed also our own personnel, 30 British
prisoners, and upwards to 2,000 Greek prisoners.


On June 5 Capt. Gallash and a few nursing orderlies departed by
air for Athens in charge of our patients, and the unit personnel,
including Capt. Carter, of the 2/1 Btn. who was attached to B.Coy.
on 30 May, were transferred to Greece on 7-8 June. The period
20-30 May had been a most difficult one, and continuation of the
work was made possible by the fact that Capts. Carter and Ryan,
of the 2/1 and 2/11 Btns. had collected and sent to us so much
German medical equipment. The only supplies received from our own
people were two small batches dropped by air on 25 and 26 May,
much of the first consignment being smashed on landing.


Our casualties during the battle for Crete were one man killed
and one wounded.

 

                                                                 PIRAEUS.
PERSORNEL. AND ATTACHED PERSONNEL OF 2/7 FIELD AMBULANCE A.I.F.
                                                                ...............................
 

P.O.W. HOSPTTAL No.1. PIRAEUS.
A MEDICAL STAFF:
WX3328 Major Palandri.J.D.--B.Coy. WX3235 Pte. Ticklie.L. ----A.Coy.
WX3351  Captain Mayrhofer.M. " . WX3760 L/Cpl. Tucker.W.N. " .
WX4851 Pte. Solomons.P. H.Q." . WX3724 Pte. Mellowship.K. ".
B. PATIENTS. 
WX3942 Pte. Adams.K.J. B. Coy.    
WX2842 Pte. Shier.E.G. "    
2. P.O.W. HOSPITAL No. 2. PIRAEUS MEDICAL STAFF.
WX3349 Capt. Gallash. F.E. WX3124 Pte. Lassey.F.
WX3509 S/Sgt. Lawrence.K. WX4001 " Lutey.F.
WX4644 Sgt. Earle.E. NX46453 " Mauger.V.C.
WX2841 " Malpas. A.H. WX4303 " Mayo.F.P.W
WX3510 Cpl. Braithwaite.J.A. WX3902 " Miller.G.
WX3770 " Bray.H.W.A. WX5712 " Moore.J.A.
WX3944 " Drysdale.D.G. WX4649 " Oswell.F.W.
WX3511 " Ewins.A.J. WX3685 " Pearce.J.G.
WX4537 L/Cpl. Ferguson.M.G. WX6122 " Preen.J.
WX4590 " Larkins.G.G. WX2883 " Pugh.J.H.
WX3813 Pte. Armstrong.B.E. WX2910 " Raine.A.W.
WX2853 " Banks.G. B.COY. WX3896 " Rickman.A.A.
WX4033 " Bassett.W.T. WX3616 " Sanderson.J.R.
WX4536 " Boag.L.C. WX3668 " Severn.H.
WX7507 " Clamp.G. WX3686 " Shier.W.J.
WX4812 " Curtis.P.J. WX2867 " Stewart.N.S..
WX3620 " Eastland.H.W. WX3619 " Sutherland.F.
WX2828 " Fisher.E.P. WX3595 " Tillot.A.J.
WX4645 " Fison.S.J. WX3570 " Webster.J.
WX4811 " Gregg.C. WX4539 " Willock.R.P
SX2120 " Jackaway.R.    
WX4538 " Jones.G.S.    
WX2315 " Kiernan.J.P.    

                                                                       ................

WX4647  Cpl. Kinnear. F.D.
WX3867 L/Cpl. Mackenzie. A.S.
WX7028 Pte..Beard. E.N.
WX4164 " Beasley. R.J.
WX6483 " Dewarboys. F.B.
WX3574 " Elson. P.
WX3678 " Feltham. W. H.Q.C0Y.
WX5908 " Kneale. B.
WX4032 " Mills. S.W.
WX2175 " Nicholson. D.
WX4792 " Randolph. E.
WX5511 " Williams. J.
WX3853 " Wilson. C.B.

 

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