Sutton Veny (St. John) Churchyard, Wiltshire, England

Cemetery Details

Location
Co‑ordinates N51.17453, W2.14107
Description

Sutton Veny is a small village near the sprawling Salisbury Plain military training area in southern England.

It has two particularly strong associations with Australia.

Large number of Asutralian troops were based at a nearby camp in WW1.  The Sutton Veny churchyard contains the graves of many Australian soldiers who died in nearby military hospitals, most notably during the influenza epidemic of 1918.

On an adjacent hillside is a very large Rising Sun badge cut into the chalk sub-strate along with other unit badges, by soldiers of those units when based nearby.

For many years Australian military personnel studying at the Royal Military College of Science used to observe ANZAC Day at this site and would maintain the Rising Sun badge.

 

 

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BRADDISH, Albert James

Service number 280
Private
1st Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Feb 1887

BEGGS, Norman Francis Henry

Service number 37533
Gunner
Born 2 May 1898

VANDERWOLF, Charles Jackeman

Service number 3709
Private
1st Divisional Ammunition Column
AIF WW1
Born 25 Jun 1891

QUIHAMPTON, William Norman

Service number 426B
Driver
3rd Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

BONNEFIN, Francis Alcide Adrian

Service number 6718
Private
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Aug 1878

SIMPSON, Roland Henry

Service number 4885
Lance Corporal
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Dec 1893

BORGMEYER, Albert James

Service number 3812
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Oct 1888

WITTS, Russell Gordon

Service number 197
Bombardier
5th Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries
AIF
AIF WW1

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