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16th at Bullecourt, the fallen
16th at Bullecourt, the fallen
On the 11th of April 1917, Australian forces attacked a sector of the Hindenberg line between Bullecourt and Queant. The 16th Battalion A.I.F. was one of four Battalions of the 4th Brigade involved in the attack. The initial advance was successful with the Brigade taking it's 1st and 2nd objectives into the 2nd line German trenches albeit with many casualties. However the hold was tenuous, enfilading machine gun fire made resupply impossible and the attackers soon began to run out of ammunition. A succession of fierce counterattacks eventually drove the Australians back to their own lines, by this time 75% of the 16th were either wounded or dead. The 16th went into the fight with 20 officers and 797 other ranks, the battalion lost in this one day's fighting 17 officers and 623 other ranks, dead, wounded and prisoners of war. The losses in the 4th Brigade as a whole were similarly high, 79 officers and 2,260 other ranks. This community remembers those men of the 16th who were killed in action on that fateful day or like my G-G-Uncle died of wounds received within the next few days.
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Born 1876
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6042 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 19th Reinforcements
Australian Imperial Force 6042 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1898
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6255 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1883
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6068 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1889
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 806A Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about John Joseph Browne -
Born 1886
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5745 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Michael Meginess -
Born 1891
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1383 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 3rd Reinforcements
More about Rowland Taylor -
Born 1877
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1319 Lance Corporal 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1897
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 3977 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Horace George Poole -
Born 1894
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1691 Corporal 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1887
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5736 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Claude Thomas Keirel -
Born 1897
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6234 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about John Thomas Bleakley -
Born 1893
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 2942 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Richard Whitford -
Born 1877
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5722 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Thomas Glasson -
Born 1895
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5149 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Daniel Martin -
Born 1895
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 90 Lance Sergeant 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Victor Henry Marshall -
Born 1884
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6270 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Fred Goodhand -
Born 1886
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 3417 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Charles Edwin Berry -
Born 1890
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5331 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F. 17th Reinforcements
Australian Imperial Force 5331 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Herbert Winton Turner -
Born 1893
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6057 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about William Elliott Main -
Born 1882
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6073 Private 16th Australian Infantry Battalion
More about John David Parsons