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17.01.2022 Another Naours Silent Soldier identified with relatives living in Brisbane discovered . Service no 13318 Private 13th Field Ambulance... Born 28 September 1892 at Geelong Victoria Son of William S Mappin and Anne F E Anderson. He enlisted as Private 13th Field Ambulance, Army Medical Corp joined 30.8.1915, service no. 13318, his occupation given as student. Embarked from Australia 7 March 1916, arrived 20 April 1916 Serapeum Egypt, went to France 13 June 1916. Tamillas was wounded in action on 13 October 1917, remained at duty under heavy fire while a stretcher bearer during operations near Zonnebekee of Ypres. He repeatedly formed part of a squad to evacuate seriously wounded soldiers in heavily shelled ground despite being wounded in his thigh. He was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty 15 December 1917. He was detached to 4th Div. H/Q 3 Nov 1918 and was promoted to Lance Sergeant 8 February 1919. He disembarked at Southampton 14 May 1919 for awarding of M.M. and returned to Australia 15 November 1919. During WW2 he was Captain Chaplain AIF and served in the Occupational Force in Japan 1946-1949 with the rank of Major. Tamillas qualified from Trinity College Melbourne A.C.T. Th.L. 1925 and became a Church of England Minister. His last congregation was at St George Church Queenscliff Victoria. He died aged 73 in 1965. Courtesy of Bev and Allan Mappin
14.01.2022 Remember Anzac Day 2020 Today we look at the reasons for the Great War! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj5r2nZHB8
05.01.2022 Great news! Another Silent Soldier has been discovered.... Errol Remfry Kittson from Inglewood in Victoria . He was a member of the 5th Divisional Signals Company who left his signature in Naours in July 1917. The 5th Signals company was also in Vignacourt. Is there a photo in the Lost Digger’s collection?? He returned to Australia after the war. We will tell his story soon.
03.01.2022 Some good news with another Naours soldier identification. Relatives living in Brisbane. Stay tuned for more details. Tamillas Robert Mappin Service no 13318... Private 13th Field Ambulance Born 28 September 1892 at Geelong Victoria Son of William S Mappin and Anne F E Anderson. He enlisted as Private 13th Field Ambulance, Army Medical Corp joined 30.8.1915, service no. 13318, his occupation given as student. Embarked from Australia 7 March 1916, arrived 20 April 1916 Serapeum Egypt, went to France 13 June 1916. Tamillas was wounded in action on 13 October 1917, remained at duty under heavy fire while a stretcher bearer during operations near Zonnebekee of Ypres. He repeatedly formed part of a squad to evacuate seriously wounded soldiers in heavily shelled ground despite being wounded in his thigh. He was awarded the Military Medal for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty 15 December 1917. He was detached to 4th Div. H/Q 3 Nov 1918 and was promoted to Lance Sergeant 8 February 1919. He disembarked at Southampton 14 May 1919 for awarding of M.M. and returned to Australia 15 November 1919. During WW2 he was Captain Chaplain AIF and served in the Occupational Force in Japan 1946-1949 with the rank of Major. Tamillas qualified from Trinity College Melbourne A.C.T. Th.L. 1925 and became a Church of England Minister. His last congregation was at St George Church Queenscliff Victoria. He died aged 73 in 1965. Courtesy of Bev and Allan Mappin
01.01.2022 The Behind the Lines exhibition is still on display at the Commissariat Store Museum , thanks to Covid. If you missed it , go and see it and discover stories of Queenslanders who were at Naours and Vignacourt......incredible stories. Check it out before it is replaced soon! The First World War is invariably characterised by the mindless slaughter of troops, while much time was spent behind the lines, those areas served as giant hubs at the intersect of not only new recruits b...ut also soldiers returning from the front for a rest while on leave or recover from an injury. In Northern France in Picardy the villages and towns of Vignacourt and Naours , Flixecourt, Bertangles, Abbeville and Etaples and many other were always behind the front lines. The exhibition explores two incredible finds that help us today to understand more about everyday lives behind the lines. In 2011, Ross Coulthart, re-discovered 4000 glass plates negatives from the First World War in the small village of Vignacourt, in the attic of a farm barn. The photos were taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier, who had supplemented their farming income during the war by selling pictures to passing Allied soldiers. The Thuillier Collection was purchased by Kerry Stokes, and the photos of 800 Australian soldiers are in the collection of the Australian War memorial. Only 160 Australian soldiers have been identified. The exhibition tells the story of four soldiers from Vignacourt: Thomas James Belden, Roy Swan Purrsey, and Thomas and William See, Just a few kilometres from Vignacourt is the village of Naours. The 20 kilometres cave network lies beneath the village, that was used in Medieval times as sanctuary, but during the Great war a place of respite. It has preserved the graffiti left by soldiers, amongst those four Queenslanders: Alfred Henry Clegg, John Trevallon Mathewson, John Patrick Ramkema, and William John Riordan. The stories of eight Queenslanders in Vignacourt and Naours, practising peaceful activities, can bring us closer to this year’s Anniversary of Armistice and remind us on returned soldiers as well on those who never returned from the Great War.
