WESTBROOK, Edward Clive
| Service Number: | 3933 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 49th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | London, England, 18 January 1895 |
| Home Town: | Cooroy, Sunshine Coast, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Hants Council School, Hythe, England |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 5 September 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane Albert Street Uniting Church Honour Roll, Cooroy War Memorial, Cootharaba Pictorial Honour Roll, Nanango War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3933, 25th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 31 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3933, 25th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3933, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Brisbane | |
| 5 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 3933, 49th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3933 awm_unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Edward Clive Westbrook was a young Englishman who had come out to Queensland in about 1913. He was not yet 21 years of age when he enlisted.
He was transferred to the 49th Battalion in Egypt during early 1916, and he was reported missing during that unit’s attack on Mouquet Farm during September 1916. The Australians suffered heavy casualties in the assault and many of these were lost in the shattered trenches and shell holes surrounding the formidable fortress and tunnels of the Farm.
Edward was not confirmed as killed in action until nearly 12 months after his death. It caused his parents, Edward and Edith Westbrook of Cooroy, Queensland, much anxiety. In March 1921, Edward’s mother Edith wrote to Base Records, “…Would it be possible for me to get any particulars in any way of my boy? I have never had any, and not even one of his belongings, and he had a good few, you can imagine how they would be prized by us. I do not even know if his body was found…”
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