BROOKES - BALL, Julian
| Service Number: | 577 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | London, England, 24 March 1895 |
| Home Town: | Corfield, Winton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Bedford Modern School, England |
| Occupation: | Labourer and sheep farmer |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 577, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 May 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 577, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 24 May 1916: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 577, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 26th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Jun 1895 Brookes-Ball Julian Camberwell 1d 910.
Resident Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
He was 21 and the son of Ethel M. Brookes-Ball and Mr W. Brookes-Ball (deceased).
Emigrated to Australia aged 16.
He is one of two Australian casualties of the Great War who are honoured at their old school, the Bedford Modern School. He was a pupil between 1907-1910.They are commemorated on the School’s War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 in the Memorial Hall of the School’s Harpur Street building, and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. A second memorial plaque was added at a later date to include additional names missing from the original memorial. When the School moved to new premises in Manton Lane in 1974 the memorial tablets were removed and now hang on the wall in Memorial Court under covered area between Kaye and Liddle Quads. Stone tablets containing names incised.
In memory of ‘the Old Boys of this School who, as in duty bound, laid down their lives in a great cause’
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