ANZAC DAY 2025 and the First World War
Lieutenant William Lyttle King( Australian War Memorial DACS 0644A)
Lieutenant Themetre James Hammond( Photo courtesy of Find a Grave: www. findagrave. com)
Sergeant Mechanic Victor Ray Ricardo( Australian War Memorial DACS0699A)
Leslie Herbert Irwin, M. B. E., M. P.( BDHS Image 1470) and was subsequently discharged as medically unfit in September 1918. His name appears on the Wentworthville School of Arts Roll of Honour.
Errol Galbraith Knox, a journalist connected to Wentworthville, enlisted on 24 September 1915 at the age of 26. He served with the 2nd Battalion, AIF, and the Australian Flying Corps on the Western Front from April 1918. His name is recorded on the St Mary’ s Church of England and Sunday School Memorial in Toongabbie, the Toongabbie District Roll of Honour, and the Wentworthville School of Arts Roll of Honour.
Frederick Charles Markham Mills, recorded on the Blacktown Soldiers’ Memorial as J. C. Markham Mills, was from Wentworthville and flew with No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Enlisting in September 1914, he served on the Western Front. In June 1918, after completing training at the No. 1 School of Aeronautics, Royal Flying Corps in Reading, England, he became a pilot with No. 2 Squadron. During August and September 1918, he shot down two German aircraft. Tragically, after the war ended, he died of influenza in Paris during the Great Epidemic on 18 December 1918.
Robert Henry Penson, from
Wentworthville *, was a motor driver who enlisted in October 1916. He served on the Western Front with No. 68 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.
Victor Jay Ricardo, a marine engineer from Wentworthville *, enlisted in 1916 and was posted to No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, on the Western Front as a Sergeant Mechanic. His name appears on the Wentworthville School of Arts Roll of Honour.
Thomas Reginald Albert Roberts, an Air Mechanic 2nd Class from Wentworthville *, served on the Western Front with No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. After returning home, he worked as an electrician on the trams.
Philip Frederick Turner, from Toongabbie, was another Air Mechanic who served on the Western Front with No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, from 1917. He trained as a Wireless Operator in England but was discharged as medically unfit at the end of 1917 due to tuberculosis. His name is recorded on the Seven Hills Roll of Honour and the Toongabbie District Roll of Honour. ANZAC Day 2025: Lest We Forget During the First World War, parts of Wentworthville were within the Shire of Blacktown.
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