Wesley College Battlefield Tour - Saturday 8th July 2023
1.The Huts Cemetery
VII. D. 19. Captain Herbert Spencer DICKINSON - 57th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - Died 25 September 1917 Age 25
Country of Service: Australian
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIEND”
More info about Captain Dickinson - see The Huts Cemetery
2. Messines Ridge British Cemetery and New Zealand Memorial
V. A. 5. Second Lieutenant Leslie BOULLY – DCM - 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - Died 05 August 1917 Age 25
Country of Service: Australian
“A BELOVED SON & BROTHER”
Panel 2. Gunner Ray Thomson TREGEAR - 17/298 - New Zealand Field Artillery - Died 09 April 1918 Age 25
Country of Service: New Zealand
More info about Second Lieutenant Boully and Gunner Tregear
see Messisnes Ridge BC
3. Mesen Town square - Grieve VC plaque
On Sunday 9th July 2023 the memorial for Robert Grieve VC was unveiled.
4. Grieve VC location - The site of the Grieve VC action
5. 1914 Christmas Truce Memorial
6. Ploegsteert Memorial
7. Torreken Farm Cemetery No 1
F. 8. Lance Corporal Norman Boyd ANDERSON – 7844 - 60th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - Died 09 March 1918 Age 20
Country of Service: Australian
“PARTED BUT NOT FOR EVER OUR BELOVED SON AND BROTHER”
More info about Lance Corporal Anderson - see Torreken Farm N°1
8. Bayernwald
9. Hellfire corner and
10. Birr Cross Roads Cemetery
Joint grave I. D. 19-20. Private Henry Russell HUNTSMAN – 6509 - 7th Bn. Australian Inf, A.I.F. - Died 20 September 1917 Age 24
Country of Service: Australian
"HARRY" BORN 24 SEPTEMBER 1892 DUTY NOBLY DONE”
More info about Private Huntsman - see Birr Cross Roads
11. Buttes New British cemetery & NZ memorial & 5th Division memorial
XVIII. C. 17. Private James Butler WHITE – 7338 - 23rd Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - Died 05 October 1917 Age 18
Country of Service: Australian
“SON OF J. AND J. WHITE UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS”
More info about Private White - see Butte New BC
12. Tyne Cot Cemetery
XLVII. D. 4. Lieutenant Horace Lisle RINTEL - 8th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - Died 20 September 1917 Age 26
Country of Service: Australian
“FOR LIBERTY”
More info about Lieutenant Rintel - see Tyne Cot Cemetery
13. Langemark German Cemetery
14.Aeroplane Cemetery
V. A. 3. Second Lieutenant Edgar Sydney WORRALL - 24th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. - Died 04 October 1917 Age 20
Country of Service: Australian
“TILL THE ROLL'S CALLED IN HEAVEN LAD YOU MAY WELL TAKE YOUR REST”
More info about Second Lieutenant Worrall - see Aeroplane Cemetery
15. Ypres Reservoir cemetery
I. C. 17. Captain Eric John KERR - 11th Field Amb. Australian Army Medical Corps - Died 04 October 1917 Age 25
Country of Service: Australian
More info about Captain Kerr - see Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
