WILMOT, Edmond Percy
| Service Number: | 670 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Royal Flying Corps |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 12 August 1895 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Schoolteacher |
| Died: | Sebastopol, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1969, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Bungaree Bullarook Mutual Improvement Association Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 670, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
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| 28 Jul 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 670, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Suffolk, Melbourne | |
| 1 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 670 | |
| 17 Jun 1916: | Involvement Transferred from Australian Engineers to be temporary 2nd Lieutenant for Duty with the Royal Flying Corps 17 June 1916 | |
| 1 Aug 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Saddler, 670 | |
| 20 Jul 1917: | Honoured Military Cross, 2nd Lt Edmond Percy Wilmot Gen List and RFS For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst co-operating with artillery. On one occasion he successfully ranged a siege battery on an enemy gun position in very bad weather, which necessitated flying at a very low altitude, during which he was subjected to an intense fire (from The Gazette July 20 1917) | |
| 6 Nov 1917: | Imprisoned Taken on the 6th November at St Quentin u. Rethel Held Holzminder. Offz. af.Lager | |
| 4 Dec 1917: | Imprisoned Telegram report "Wilmot, 21 Wellington Square, Chelsea London SW4 "Prisoner, unwounded send food parcels Karlsruhe "Perc." 4 12 17 Tel. Aid Committee Flying Corps Surrey House, Marble Arch London. "Please send food parcels Karlsruhe Wilmot and Cribb" | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Captain, Royal Flying Corps | |
| 1 May 1920: | Promoted Captain, Shortly before being repatriated to Australia | |
| 6 Nov 2017: | Involvement Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, Two weeks before the start of the battle, the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) began to train its pilots in ground-attack tactics. Before the ground offensive, the RFC was assigned sets of targets to attack, including trenches, supply points and enemy airfields |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Veronica Munday
I found a tiny photograph of this person in my Grandfather's photo album. It bore the inscription "Your sincerely Lt E Wilmot 4/19". My grandfather Archibald Munday was a driver in the Royal Flying Corps from 1917 to 1919 and so I assume he must have known Lt Wilmot at some time during that period. I have tried to research Lt Wilmot and all I have found out is that he had several different types of job (returning to his birth town) after the war including farmer and post office employee. He married in the 1930s but does not appear to have had any children. I wanted him to be remembered as he must have been a really brave individual and none of the Australian Anzac websites seem to have been aware of his service after 1916 when he joined the AFC or his Military Cross and POW experiences.
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