NAYLOR, Benjamin Ernleigh
| Service Number: | 2265 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Penguin, Tasmania, Australia, 10 August 1896 |
| Home Town: | Penguin, Central Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Penguin State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 16 July 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Penguin to the Great War |
World War 1 Service
| 26 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2265, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2265, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2265, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Fremantle | |
| 16 Jul 1917: | Involvement Private, 2265, 52nd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2265 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-07-16 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Benjamin was the second youngest of six sons of the late Mr. Henry Naylor, of Penguin, a retired Indian civil servant, who all volunteered for active service, and went to the front. He was the first of three brothers who died during the Great War.
Urmston Naylor, Ben Naylor, and Fred Naylor, were all killed; Ira Naylor, returned to Australia incapacitated from gunshot wound in the side, received at Gallipoli towards the end of the campaign; Theo Naylor, enlisted in 1914, fought right through the Gallipoli campaign and was twice evacuated wounded; likewise, Henry Naylor, enlisted in August 1914 and returned to Australia after four years of service. A sister of the above Naylor brothers, also lost her husband, Mr. H. J. V. P. Dove who volunteered for active service in 1916 and died of illness in hospital, England during June 1917.
Benjamin was serving with the 52nd Battalion near Ploegsteert Wood where he was one of three men killed by German shelling on 16 July 1917. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
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