YEOMANS, Bertram William
| Service Number: | 363 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 January 1915, An original member of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Blayney, New South Wales, Australia, 6 March 1888 |
| Home Town: | Woodstock, Cowra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine driver |
| Died: | Killed in action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 27 August 1915, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Blayney and Milthorpe District Roll of Honor, Lithgow War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Millthorpe Greghamstown District & School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 363, 17th Infantry Battalion, An original member of A Company | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 363, 17th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 363, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Bertram William Yeomans was the son of Charles and Rachel Yeomans of Lithgow, New South Wales.
His younger brother, 3068 Lce. Cpl. Royal Theodore Yeomans 30th Battalion AIF was later killed in action 18 March 1918, aged 22.
Bertram spent most of his life in Woodstock, New South Wales, before he enlisted in January 1915. He was a member of the 17th Battalion which on 20 August 1915, landed at Anzac Cove. Six days later the 17th Battalion participated in the last action of the August Offensive – the attack on Hill 60. Bertram was killed in action during the attack and nothing is known of his fate and he has no known grave.
It emerged later that Bertram was the father of an ex-nuptial child, Louisa Florence Yeomans Smith, born to Esther Smith only three months before Bertram enlisted.
Bertram’s father received his 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Memorial Plaque. The daughter was awarded, in trust, his Victory Medal and Memorial Scroll.
During 1916, Esther placed the following notice in the Lithgow Mercury,
“Yeomans - In sad and ever-loving memory of Pte. B. W. Yeomans, killed in action, August 27, 1915, during a charge on Hill 60, through an enemy bomb striking him on the shoulder.
He answered the call of his country, But the voice in the cable told us, That my dear brave daddy in khaki, Was killed at the Dardanelles.
Inserted by his little daughter, (Millie), and her lonely, mother.”
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