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The Sun 6 May 1917 p 11 ENLISTED AT FOURTEEN BOY SOLDIER AT "MOOCOW FARM" “Gas Smells Like Fruit” PATROL'S DEVOTION Beside the fire at 8 Pine-street, Manly, there sits a boy of 16, who is gradually recovering from shell-shock contracted on the historic field of Mouquet Farm in France, He enlisted at the age of 14 and a few months, and his name is Cecil Thomas. He Is fair and slight, and serious-looking, and as he talks he stares into the fire, seeing, you hardly dare imagine what ghastly pictures in the glowing coals. He gave his age as 18 at the Town Hall recruiting depot, and as he was fairly tall, the white lie passed undetected. His parents' permission lie filled in himself, writing backhand to disguise his boyish penmanship. They put him into reinforcements;' and after a time spent in Egypt Cecil Thomas had his 15th birthday on a troopship' 'bound for France! "No, no one guessed how young I was," heasoys; "they all took me on as one of themselves, and It- was not until I returned that some of the officers found it out. There was another boy there a month older than me, but I never got a chance of talking with him. He is still in France, I believe." Private Thomas's father left with another battalion soon after the boy enlisted, and he is still fighting in France, but his son, hearing that the elder Thomas's battalion was quartered near his own, searched it out, and on two different occasions was able to have a chat with his father. Of the actual battlefield the boy is yet unable to speak fluently. There are phases of it, which touched upon ever so gently, set his lips trembling with memories — memories to be pushed hastily aside as part of an evil dream that is over. His mother says that a thunderstorm makes him "restless as a kitten," and that for weeks after his return he sat listlessly with his head in his hands, hardly speaking to anyone, and showing interest in nothing about him. THE MOTOR BIKE CURE For two months his anxious little mother hoard not one word from her boy's lips about | war or any of the experiences through' which he had, passed. His one desire, he told her, I was to get out into the country, away from I the noise and clatter of the city. So off she packed him to relatives on the North Coast, and here the thing that made him a boy again was — a motor bike! He laughs softly at the incongruity of seeking quiet and practically living on a snorting, shaking, fussy machine of that kind. But on the bike his mind rode back to normal. Talking of gas, Cecil Thomas gives a surprisingly novel description. "It smells like all the fruit you ever smelt — as if the breeze were blowing oft an orchard. It is so lovely that you could go on snifllng and snifllng it, and all tho time it would be killing you. As soon as the first whiff reaches you, though, you put on your gas helmet. Usually the word is sent along that a gas attack is expected, just the 'same as you get warning of the bombs that you have to put on tear goggles for. They have cayenne and stuff in them that makes your eyes sore for some time. The tear goggles are made of rubber, in sections to lit closely against the eye, and have bits of mica to look through." "The thing that always beat me was how our side got all the information they did. We'd get word seat along that at 9 o'clock the enemy was going to bombard us for five minutes, and sure enough it would be as true as if we had arranged it ourselves. "There was. one. officer: I can't remember his name, who belonged to the Intelligence Department. He had a German uniform and could speak German, so they said, and used to go into the enemy lines for hours at a time. He is in England now with one leg amputated. The Germans put out – papers and a bag in No Man's Land one day, and dared our side to get them. He and another officer took up the challenge. He got the papers, but the other chap was killed. Often the Germans would stick a flag, out and dare us to get it. Once or twice when fellows went out a mine went off as soon as they pulled the flag out of the ground." The boy soldier did not find listening-post duty as dreadful as he has heard others describe it. He pokes the fire and talks quietly ON LISTENING POST "The first night you go out on listening post your hair stands on end at every sound and you see faces in the dark! (That is the fifteen-year-old speaking!) "The second night out you scrag the new chum that goes with you for yelling out when he sees things. You have to stand stock-still and not even breathe louder than you can help! When the flares go up from the German lines any movement from the listening post would mean death, but standing still you look just like one of the stumps that are scattered about in dozens all over the ground at Mouquet Farm." He tells you that at first he used to take a delight in potting these stumps, until he found that it attracted the enemy's attention to his part of the trench and made things too hot for him. Patrol duty, which entails crawling under the enemy's barbed wire entanglements and staying near their trenches In the hope of hearing something, did not appeal to him at all. He was glad when that was over. But the mention of it brings to' his mind a story that fires his imagination and sets a light burning In his quiet eyes. The battalion was to make a raid, the artillery first cutting the enemy's wires. By some miscalculation it was our own wire that was cut, and as the men dashed on, the enemy's entanglements confronted them with certain death. It was then the patrol threw themselves across the wires and made a bridge by which the raiders were able to cross. The raid was successful and the patrol had not given their lives in vain. Cecil Thomas pokes the fire and stares into the coals for a space. When he is 18 ho hopes to go hack and finish up what he began as a fifteen-year-old. He returned to Sydney in December and celebrated his 16th birthday a week later. His mother's eyes have not yet forgotten their anxiety of it year ago, but she laughs us she says; "He was always serious, and even as a baby he took his pleasures seriously. He always used to say that when he grow up he would build me a nice house und then buy a yacht and go sailing round the world. But he did the sailing first instead of last!"

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Born: 10/8/1884 in Norwood, Adelaide, South Australia (SA Birth Records 1842 - 1906 Book: 333 Page: 200 District: Nor.) Father Rowland Barbenson Robin and Mother Mary Friend Whitney Robin (nee Canaway), living at 28 Edwin Terrace, Gilberton, SA. Sisters: Mrs E C Ashwin Dorothy Margaret Robin (b. 3/7/1887 East Adelaide - d. ___) - SA Birth Records 1842-1906 Bk:399 Pge:486 District: Nor. Beatirce Ruth Robin (b. 31/10/1888 East Adelaide - d. ___) - SA Birth Records 1842-1906 Bk:427 Pge:315 District: Nor. Mary de Quetteville Robin (b. 14/5/1894 East Adelaide - d. ___) - SA Birth Records 1842-1906 Bk:543 Pge:406 District: Nor. Rowland Cuthbert Robin (b. 5/8/1898 St Peters - d.___) - SA Birth Records 1842-1906 Bk:627 Pge:14 District: Nor. Next of kin in service - Cousins: 2180 Corporal Arthur Mervyn Robin, 7th Battalion (KIA 29/6/1916 at Messines) 329 Sergeant Geoffrey de Quetteville Robin, 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion (KIA July 1916 at Fromelles) Lieutenant James Keeling Robin MC, 4th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery (KIA February 1917) Julieanne Ryan 2014

Des Sheen was awarded his DFC by King George VI for "leading three Spitfires against a superior number of enemy aircraft, of which he forced one into the sea and inflicted serious damage on another. Later he led two British fighters against seven Heinkels, and although wounded in the leg and ear, he continued the attack until a leaking petrol tank forced him to withdraw from the engagement". These actions occurred on 21 October and 7 December 1939.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/curr-francis-lawrence-9882

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https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=263551

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http://www.artillerywa.org.au/raahs/history.htm

https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1064611&c=WW2#R

https://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/awm338_8.pdf

SKM_C36821011814050.pdf

220913_Dernancourt_SA_Memorial_Opening.pdf

220913_Dernancourt_SA_Memorial_Opening.docx

Olivia_Brook_Kadina_Memorial_School_Joseph_Colwyn_Kelly.pdf

Flying_Officer_Edward_Tompson_Mobsby___A_Chong.pdf

Sergeant_William_George_Bridgman___N_Heinrich.pdf

Desmond_George_Loxton___M_Wirth.pdf

Jack_Richard_Hopgood___B_Yates.pdf

John_Anthony_Howard_Wilkinson___S_Schultz.pdf

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The following from Iain Bramley's research Forename Surname Rank Unit / Formation Date Up Down Mission Pilot Aircraft Type & Number J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 24th May 1942 n.a. n.a. Posting into 49 Squadron as WT/Air Gunner n.a. n.a. J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 15th August 1942 12:54:00 AM 5:04:00 AM Dusseldorf Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster W.4113 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 17th August 1942 10:26:00 PM 3:01:00 AM Osnabruck Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster W.4113 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 8th September 1942 10:44:00 PM 3:37:00 AM Frankfurt Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5896 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 10th September 1942 8:40:00 PM 1:40:00 AM Dusseldorf Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5916 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 13th September 1942 11:22:00 PM 3:24:00 AM Bremen Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5812 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 14th September 1942 8:31:00 PM 12:48:00 AM Wilmeshaven Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster L.7493 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 17th September 1942 8:38:00 PM 1:15:00 AM Krupps Works, Essen Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5912 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 18th September 1942 7:52:00 PM 4:25:00 AM Mining off Swinehunde Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5912 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 20th September 1942 7:38:00 PM 4:10:00 AM Munich Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5912 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 17th October 1942 12:09:00 PM 10:08:00 PM Schneider Steel Works, Le Creusot (Daylight) Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster W.4773 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 21st October 1942 5:33:00 PM 1:20:00 AM Munich Sgt Elliott Cole Lancaster W.4245 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 24th October 1942 12:20:00 PM 9:22:00 PM Milan (daylight) Sgt Roy Gould Lancaster R.5912 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 21st December 1942 5:33:00 PM 1:20:00 AM Munich Sgt Elliott Cole Lancaster W.4245 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 16th January 1943 4:52:00 PM 11:41:00 PM Berlin Sgt Elliott Cole Lancaster ED.428 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 17th January 1943 4:58:00 PM 1:22:00 AM Berlin Sgt Elliott Cole Lancaster ED.428 J A G Browne Sgt No 49 Squadron 31st January 1943 2:26:00 AM 7:15:00 AM Hamburg (crashed at Reepham Crossing on return) Sgt Elliott Cole Lancaster ED.428

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1562795

https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7339932

https://153squadronassociation.weebly.com/brief-history.html

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4019464

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1459085/CHERPITER,%20JOHN