PHOTO COLLECTION BIOGRAPHIES

Wilfred ‘Tom’ Baker

Sapper Wilfred ‘Tom’ Baker served as a signaller with the 1st Signal Squadron in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Baker, who was born in England, was a labourer from South Yarra in Melbourne, Victoria. He enlisted in October 1914 and returned to Australia in July 1919.

Claude Ballard

Lance Corporal Claude Ballard served with the 2nd and the 7th Light Horse Regiments in the Palestine campaign. Ballard was a forest guard from Mallanganee in northern New South Wales. He enlisted in June 1916 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

Joseph Bradshaw

Trooper Joseph Bradshaw served with the 4th Anzac Battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps and the 15th Light Horse Regiment in the Palestine campaign. Bradshaw was a labourer from Kogarah in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in August 1916 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

Godfrey Burgess

Corporal Godfrey Burgess served with the 12th Light Horse Regiment in the Palestine campaign. Burgess was a produce merchant from Molong in New South Wales. He enlisted in November 1916 and returned to Australia in July 1919.

John Davidson

Lieutenant John Davidson served with the 3rd Anzac Battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. He also served with the 15th Light Horse in the Palestine campaign. He was awarded a Military Cross during Second Gaza and was later mentioned in despatches. Davidson, who was born in Scotland, was a farmer from Cowra in New South Wales. He enlisted in August 1914 and returned to Australia in January 1919.

Reg Dixon

Lance Corporal Reg Dixon served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment in the Palestine campaign. Dixon was a warehouseman from Centennial Park in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in the AIF from the Royal Australian Naval Reserve in April 1917 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

Austin Edwards

Corporal Austin Edwards served with the 1st Light Horse Regiment in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Edwards was a joiner from Cundletown in New South Wales. He enlisted in February 1915 and returned to Australia in October 1919.

George Francis

Lieutenant George Francis served with the 12th Light Horse Regiment and the 4th Machine Gun Squadron in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Francis was a station overseer from Neutral Bay in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in March 1915 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

John Gorrell

Trooper John Gorrell served with the 1st Light Horse Regiment in the Palestine campaign. Gorrell was a bank officer from Unanderra in New South Wales. He enlisted in March 1917 and returned to Australia in March 1919.

Arthur Hitchcock

Private Arthur Hitchcock served as General Chauvel’s batman in the headquarters of the Australian Mounted Division in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Hitchcock was a ship steward from Sydney in New South Wales. He enlisted in May 1915 and returned to Australia in September 1919.

Fred Horsley

Private Fred Horsley served with the 4th Light Horse Regiment in the Palestine campaign. Horsley was a teamster from Leichhardt in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in November 1916 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

Bert Inall

Private Bert Inall served with the 1st Anzac Battalion of the Imperial Camel Corps in the Palestine campaign. Inall was a postal linesman from Richmond in New South Wales. He enlisted in March 1916 and returned to Australia in May 1919.

Ralph Kellett

Sergeant Ralph Kellett served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Kellett was a clerk from Mudgee in New South Wales. He enlisted in December 1915 and returned to Australia in June 1919.

Private Ken McAulay served with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. McAulay was a teacher from Chatsworth Island in New South Wales. He enlisted in August 1915 and returned to Australia in September 1918.

Harry Mattocks

Sergeant Harry Mattocks served with the 2nd Light Horse Brigade supply train in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Mattocks was a carpenter from Maitland in New South Wales. He enlisted in September 1914 and returned to Australia in December 1918.

Private Roy Millar served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment in the Palestine campaign. Millar was a horse breaker from Leichhardt in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in May 1917 and returned to Australia in July 1919.

Edwin Mulford

Lieutenant Edwin Mulford served with the 12th Light Horse Regiment in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. He was awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medal and was mentioned in despatches before joining No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, in January 1918. Mulford was an electrician from Waverley in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in August 1914 and returned to Australia in January 1919.

Hugh Poate

Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Poate served with the Australian General Hospital in Egypt and England. Poate was a surgeon from Sydney in New South Wales. He enlisted in August 1914 and returned to Australia in October 1917.

Sergeant Clarence Reid served with the 1st Light Horse Regiment in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Reid was a labourer from Gunnedah in New South Wales. He enlisted in August 1914 and returned to Australia in July 1919.

Arthur Reynolds

Sergeant Arthur Reynolds served with the 6th Light Horse Regiment in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Reynolds was a station manager from Merriwa in New South Wales. He enlisted in July 1915 and returned to Australia in June 1919.

Walter Smyth

Driver Walter Smyth served with the Australian Mounted Division divisional train in the Palestine campaign. Smyth was an apprentice from Woollahra in Sydney, New South Wales. He enlisted in March 1917 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

Private Horace Taberner served with the 1st Remount Unit in Egypt. Taberner was a farmhand from Kensington in Victoria. He enlisted in December 1915 and returned to Australia in August 1919.

William Maitland Woods

Francis Maitland Woods

Lieutenant Colonel William Maitland Woods was the senior chaplain to the Anzac Mounted Division and then the Desert Mounted Corps. He was decorated with the Order of the British Empire. William Woods, who was English-born, had been a chaplain to the forces since 1893. He enlisted in August 1915 and returned to Australia in February 1919. His son, Temporary Sergeant Francis Maitland Woods served with the 7th Light Horse Regiment and later with the Camel Transport Corps in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Francis Woods was an engineer fitter originally from Thursday Island. He enlisted in September 1914 and was discharged from the AIF in March 1918.