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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 1889
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 806A Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1895
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6025 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1897
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1790
Australian Imperial Force 1790A Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Clifford Norman Touzel -
Born 1886
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 3417 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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Born 1898
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5998 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about James Newman Brealey -
Born 1894
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 3451 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Eric Duce -
Born 1895
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 2078 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Joshua Radway -
Born 1899
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6121 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about William Henry Watson -
Born 1895
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1298 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Charles Robert Lewis -
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 4746 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about William Henry Adams -
Born 1885
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 405 Sergeant 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about George Mcwhinney -
Born 1896
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 3043 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Claude Colin Bruce Sowton -
Born 1882
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6565 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Nelson Victor Page -
Born 1897
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5770 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Mervyn Daniel Payne -
Born 1885
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1334 Lance Corporal 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Harold Thorp -
Born 1894
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 6017 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Darcy Wersley Forrest -
Born 1891
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 652 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Hubert Clement Clues -
Born 1894
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 1046 Sergeant 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Henry Alfred Horsman -
Born 1887
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5379 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
More about Henry Edward Mccarthy -
Born 1889
Died 1917
Australian Imperial Force 5415 Private 16th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
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