MAKEPEACE, Edgar Gordon
| Service Number: | 1108 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 1 November 1915, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland. |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 10 July 1887 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Ipswich Grammar School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 5 October 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Atherton War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour, Lake Eacham War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Millaa Millaa WW1 Honour Board, Shire of Moggill War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1108, 41st Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Cairns, Queensland. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1108, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 18 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1108, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 14 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1108, 41st Infantry Battalion, Gun Shot Wound to the left forearm | |
| 5 Oct 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1108, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1108 awm_unit: 41st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-05 |
Edgar Gordon Makepeace
From the day in 1857 when Thomas Tindale Makepeace and his wife, Hannah Fryar, moved to Moggill, their family history was quite remarkable. They left Gosforth in England and moved to Australia in search for a better life. Thomas Tindale quickly found work at the Redbank Coal Mines but, while working there he was in a severe accident that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs. Incapable of work as a coal miner, he turned to farming.
His farm was once described as‘a pattern of neatness and comfort – it had an air of the well-to-do and successful farmer’. Later, Thomas Tindal and his son Thomas Jnr became foundation members of the Moggill Methodist Church. This formed a steady relationship between the Makepeace family and the Moggill community and they became worthy citizens. Thomas Jnr later married Olivia Vance, and together they had 11 children, of which Edgar Gordon Makepeace was the third.
Edgar ‘Gordon’ Makepeace was an Australian soldier who served in the First World War. He was one of the 19 soldiers from the Kenmore–Moggill region in west Brisbane who never returned.
In 1906, when Edgar was 19 years old, his father, Thomas Makepeace, passed away. This brought great sadness to the family and community. Less than a decade later, Edgar enlisted for WWI three months after his younger brother, Arthur. On 17 May 1916, he boarded his ship, HMAS Demosthenes A64, and sailed off on his two-month journey to England. He trained for the 41st Australian Infantry Battalion until going to France on 24 November 1916. A little
later, back home in Australia, in March 1917, Paul, another brother, enlisted. Sadly, only a month later, Edgar was admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound in his left arm. In September of that same year, Edgar returned to the
frontline. He continued fighting for Australia until he was killed in action on 13 October 1917 in Ypres, Belgium. His final resting place is Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Courtesy of Kenmoremoggillstrsl.org
Submitted 9 March 2021 by Lynette Turner
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