Considerable research has been done on Western Australian soldiers who went to the various conflicts Australia has been involved in.
Claire Greer, a research assistant and PhD candidate conducted research about soldiers who went to World War 1 from Subiaco and in particular from Olive Street and Barker Road.
I was interested in her research she did on soldiers and their families who lived in a section of Barker Road and Blackboy Hill. That information can be found at her blog 'The Road to War and Back' at roadtowarandback.blogspot.com.
I have included two entries here. I was interested in the entries for two of the soldiers from Barker Road who served in France and Belgium and went AWOL during their service as two of the soldiers from the family research I conducted with various injuries whose war records show also went AWOL while on duty.
Greer, C. 2013, 'ANZAC Day 2013 : The Road That Went To War' published at roadtowarandback.blogspot.com April 27, 2013.
About Greer's research...
"...I've found that one of the highest concentrations of homes where people enlisted in Subiaco was between 198 and 224 Barker Road, between Axon Street and Townsend Road.
Six of the sixteen houses on the street had people go to war, including one that over the duration of the conflict, housed two different families that sent soldiers overseas. I also included one house in Townsend Road and one that backed onto a Barker Road property from Park Street, given their proximity to other homes.
Overall, I've located 430 addresses of individuals, or their next of kin, who were listed in the embarkation rolls as Subiaco residents at the time of enlistment. Of these, 28 lived in Barker Road - around 6% of the total, and the highest number of individuals from any single street in the area..."
Soldiers from Barker Road entries...
"...Extensive detail on the history of more than 1500 Subiaco soldiers who served in the First World War (WW1) is being uncovered in a research study carried out at The University of Western Australia. UWA PhD student Claire Greer last year completed a detailed analysis of Olive Street Subiaco as a pilot study.
Greer has since extended the research to cover the whole of Subiaco in her Landscape of Loss project.
...Ms Greer collected data from original military records and a range of historical sources to put together intricate details mapping out the lives of Subiaco residents and soldiers who served in WWW1...."
Greer, Claire 2018, A suburb at war: WA 100 years after the Great War Part Three' published at www.watoday.com.au on April, 25 2018.
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"...152 Park Street
Arthur Morris
Discharged in 1919 for medical reasons
Like Norman Thrum, 26-year-old teamster Arthur Morris had suffered from debilitating rheumatism that had been dormant for many years, but had flared up again in the trenches of France upon his arrival in 1916. Arthur had a great deal many hospital admissions for arthritis, rheumatism and rheumatic fever through the course of the war, and also had a number of run-ins with authority, at one point going AWOL. For his transgression he received 21 days of Field Punishment No. 2 and was docked 22 days of pay.
Field Punishment No. 2 was the equivalent of hard labour, undertaken while shackled, bound or handcuffed so Arthur did not have an easy time. Nothertheless, despite illnesses and ill judged behaviour, he remained in the army until the war was over and on his return to Australia in 1919 was discharged from the service for medical reasons. "
Arthur Morris
Discharged in 1919 for medical reasons
Like Norman Thrum, 26-year-old teamster Arthur Morris had suffered from debilitating rheumatism that had been dormant for many years, but had flared up again in the trenches of France upon his arrival in 1916. Arthur had a great deal many hospital admissions for arthritis, rheumatism and rheumatic fever through the course of the war, and also had a number of run-ins with authority, at one point going AWOL. For his transgression he received 21 days of Field Punishment No. 2 and was docked 22 days of pay.
Field Punishment No. 2 was the equivalent of hard labour, undertaken while shackled, bound or handcuffed so Arthur did not have an easy time. Nothertheless, despite illnesses and ill judged behaviour, he remained in the army until the war was over and on his return to Australia in 1919 was discharged from the service for medical reasons. "
"218 Barker Road
John Angrove
Died of wounds in 1917
John Angrove was a chemist, 29 years old when he joined the 28th Battalion Reinforcements and went to war in 1916, and eventually joining the same unit as Stuart-Sinclair. He received 21 days of Field Punishment No 2 (see Arthur Morris below) for being absent while on duty, and subsequently moved to a role with the 22 Machine Gun Company. He received a gunshot wound to the back on the 20th of September 1917'in Belgium, dying two days later at the Casual Clearing Station, and he was buried in the same cemetery at Lijssentheok that the Stuart-Sinclair brothers would be month or two months later. He left behind a wife Jessie, who subsequently moved to New South Wales to begin a new life."
John Angrove
Died of wounds in 1917
John Angrove was a chemist, 29 years old when he joined the 28th Battalion Reinforcements and went to war in 1916, and eventually joining the same unit as Stuart-Sinclair. He received 21 days of Field Punishment No 2 (see Arthur Morris below) for being absent while on duty, and subsequently moved to a role with the 22 Machine Gun Company. He received a gunshot wound to the back on the 20th of September 1917'in Belgium, dying two days later at the Casual Clearing Station, and he was buried in the same cemetery at Lijssentheok that the Stuart-Sinclair brothers would be month or two months later. He left behind a wife Jessie, who subsequently moved to New South Wales to begin a new life."
This article is about Greer's 'Landscape of Loss Project' was published in the University of Western Australia news.
University of Western Australia, 2016, 'UWA researcher unravels some of Perth's WW1 history,' published at www.news.edu.au on 22 April, 2016.
University of Western Australia, 2016, 'UWA researcher unravels some of Perth's WW1 history,' published at www.news.edu.au on 22 April, 2016.
"...Extensive detail on the history of more than 1500 Subiaco soldiers who served in the First World War (WW1) is being uncovered in a research study carried out at The University of Western Australia. UWA PhD student Claire Greer last year completed a detailed analysis of Olive Street Subiaco as a pilot study.
Greer has since extended the research to cover the whole of Subiaco in her Landscape of Loss project.
...Ms Greer collected data from original military records and a range of historical sources to put together intricate details mapping out the lives of Subiaco residents and soldiers who served in WWW1...."
Greer, Claire 2018, A suburb at war: WA 100 years after the Great War Part Three' published at www.watoday.com.au on April, 25 2018.
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