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Unit |
5th Battalion,
A Company |
Rank |
Major |
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Date of Enlistment |
25 August
1914 |
Service no. |
- |
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Date of Death |
25 April 1915 |
Place of Death |
400
Plateau (Lone Pine), by a sniper |
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Age |
27 |
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Cemetery |
Lone Pine Cemetery |
Details |
I. F. 7 |
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Epitaph |
In Loving
Memory Son of Mr. & Mrs. J.D. Fethers Melbourne |
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Next of Kin |
(Father)
FETHERS J D |
Address |
Weyanoke,
Kooyong Rd, Caulfield VIC |
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Parents |
James
Denton and Amelia Charlotte Fethers |
Address |
Weyanoke,
Kooyong Rd, Caulfield VIC |
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Date of Birth |
11 May
1887 |
Place of birth |
VIC
Malvern |
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General |
5th Battalion - 25 April 1915
In the meantime, from an hour long
before that at which Bridges or even McCay landed, the 2nd Brigade had
been coming ashore from its transports under a galling fire of shrapnel
from the battery at Gaba Tepe. The boats of the 6th from the Galeka,
following those of the 7th, found the shells of this battery bursting
overhead during the last 200 yards to the shore. The soldiers were
rowing; the officers were in bows or stern.
Under such difficulties the 6th
Battalion landed immediately after the 7th, and, boat-load by boat-load,
as directed by Glasfurd, it moved over into the Rendezvous in Shrapnel
Gully. Machine-gun and rifle fire was still coming down the gully from
some position far away at its head on Baby 700. Before 7 a.m. half of
the 6th Battalion had arrived, under Colonel McNicoll, and in the open
scrub on the foot of the Razorback, about 200 yards from the 7th. The
5th Battalion began presently to form behind the 6th; the 8th followed
and assembled beside 5th.
The companies of the 5th Battalion
toiled independently up the narrow goat-tracks in the scrub of the
Razorback.
Then the storm burst. The Turkish
battery at Scrubby Knoll had the advancing troops in full view on the
skyline at less than a mile’s range. The Turkish gunners pumped into
them shell after shell. Unseen machine-guns from down Owen’s Gully
opened upon them firing through the scrub. Fortunately the shrapnel was
poor stuff and the machine-guns fired high. The signal was given to lie
down and then to advance by short rushes. The company advanced over an
abandoned Turkish trench, past the small open square of the Daisy Patch
blooming with red poppies, into the thick scrub of Lone Pine, where a
man five yards away was invisible. By the time it reached the forward
edge of the Daisy Patch there were with the officers only a few of their
N.C.O.’s and men. They lay down there in the scrub.
BEAN, Charles, The Official History of
Australia in the War of 1914–1918, volume 1, pages 367 - 385 (source
1) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
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ANZAC Epitaphs, http://www.anzacs.org/epitaphs/epitaphsab.html
(source 10) |
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Photo |
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ANZAC Memorial - 1917, page 253 (source 3) |
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Photo |
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The Sydney Mail Newspaper, 12 May 1915 (source 15) |
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Photo |
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The Age Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 10 (source 44) |
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Photo |
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The Argus Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source 42) |
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Photo |
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The Australasian Newspaper, 15 May 1915, page vii
(source 31) |
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Photo |
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The Daily Telegraph Newspaper, 8 May 1915, page 15
(source 70) |
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Photo |
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The Melbourne Herald Newspaper, 5 May 1915, page 1
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Photo |
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For Empire. Australia's Rally to the Dear Old Flag.
Victoria's First Expeditionary Force to the Motherland, page
6
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Photo |
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Record of War Service of Bank and Staff 1914-1919. The
National Bank of Australasia, page 67
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Photo |
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WALKER, R W, To what end did they die? Officers died at
Gallipoli, page 104
(source 127) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Adelaide Advertiser Newspaper, 7 May 1915, page 7 (source
47) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Melbourne Herald Newspaper, 5 May 1915, page 1
(source 95) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Register Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source
103) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Argus Herald Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source
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Newspaper article |
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The West
Australian Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source
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Family details |
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Spirits of
Gallipoli |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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ANZAC Epitaphs
(source 10) |
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Notes |
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BEAN, Charles, The Official History of Australia in the War
of 1914–1918, volume 1, pages 388-389
(source 51) |
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Notes |
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WALKER, R W, To what end did they die? Officers died at
Gallipoli, page 104
(source 127) |
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Notes |
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KEOWN, A. W., Forward with the Fifth, page 95
(source 194) |
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Various |
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Record of War Service of Bank and Staff 1914-1919. The
National Bank of Australasia, page 15 (source 130) |
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Various |
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Record of War Service of Bank and Staff 1914-1919. The
National Bank of Australasia, page 14 (source 130) |
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Various |
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Record of War Service of Bank and Staff 1914-1919. The
National Bank of Australasia, page 14 (source 130) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 43 (source 14) |
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