Our Anzacs - who never came home.
Australian towns deeply felt the loss of their sons who never returned home. Almost every town has an Honour Board to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
 William Stanley Allars 20 years of age Farm Labourer ( Photo: Public Domain) |
was working as a farm labourer in Clyde when he enlisted at the age of 19yrs 9 months in 1916. Almost 12 months after leaving Australia he died from wounds in France, May 1917 at 21 years of age. His enlistment address is given as Clyde . His parent's farm was on the corner of Muddy Gates Lane and Pound Road. Private (Pte) William Stanley Allars, 39th Battalion, of Clyde, Vic. A farm labourer before enlisting with his elder brother 816 Pte Sydney George Allars in January 1916, Stan Allars left Australia for France with the original 39th Battalion in May 1916. He was mortally wounded by a German shell at Ploegsteert Wood in Belgium on 30 April 1917, and died two days later at the 53rd Casualty Clearance Station at Bailleul, age 21 years. William Stanley Allars and Sydney George Allars are on the Honour Roll Board 1914-1918 War, which is in the Cardinia State School. |
Corporal George Charles CHURCHILL was killed in action in Mont St Quentin, France, after 3 years on active service, at the age of 24, in September 1918. |
 George Charles Churchill 21 years of age Chaff Cutter (Photo: Ridgway Family) |
| Hedley Howard THOMAS, at 24 years of age, a stretcher bearer, was killed while he was binding the wounds of a comrade. He as shot by a sniper in July 1918. In Clyde he worked as a farm labourer with his family in Tuckers Road. His family were active in the Clyde Methodist Church. |
Thomas Henry WILLIAMS,a Clyde farm labourer, died in a German Prisoner of War camp in April 1917. He was a son of Thomas and Sarah Williams (nee Hall and later Mrs Ridgway) who were the first owners of the Clyde General Store. |
Is one of these men your great uncle? Do you have any more details? A photo perhaps?
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The Soldiers who lived in Clyde
Sources
AIF Project on line http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/search
Australian War Memorial Collection http://www.awm.gov.au/
National Archives on line http://naa12.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx
Argus On line
Information from Rev Eric Thomas, Allars Family Historian & Ridgway Family Historian
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