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CWGC details Name: BUTLER, EDWARD LIONEL AUSTIN Initials: E L A Nationality: Australian Rank: Second Lieutenant Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Unit Text: 12th Bn. Date of Death: 23/08/1916 Additional information: Son of Edward Henry and Fanny Amy Butler, of Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: III. A. 10. Cemetery: PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=510923 Grave Marker can be viewed here twgpp.org/information.php?id=2043905

Descendant of Gamaliel Butler? Yes Known as Leo, b. 10/04/1883, d. 23/08/1916. Fourth generation in family law firm, Butler, MacIntyre and Butler, apparently played first class cricket for Tasmania. A memorial window was erected at St Davids Cathedral, Hobart. Dedicated to his memory on 16/08/1917. next of kin E.H. (Edward Henry) Butler (Father), Solicitor, Hobart. b1851, d1928. Mother - Fanny Amy Butler nee Clerk. Brother - Angus Leicester Butler, b1885, d1965 (wife Marjorie nee Ellis) no children. A cousin of my Gran. www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/pozieres-windmill/aif-memorial...

Leo may have seen the same trenches as my Grandfather's brother!

Although in different Battalions, they moved backwards and forwards gaining ground, then loosing it again, with sometimes heavy loss of life on both sides, for a war that Paul Baumer in "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque, could not see the point of!

See images of the gravesites at PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY here..
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GRATWICKE, PHILIP CHARLES
Rank:Lieutenant
Date of Death:30/03/1918
Age:23
Regiment/Service:Army Cyclist Corps
IX Corps Cyclist Bn
Panel ReferencePanel 90.
MemorialPOZIERES MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Charles J. and Mary Gratwicke, of 76, Ballater Rd., Brixton, London.

Name: Philip Charles Gratwicke
Death Date: 30 Mar 1918
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Army Cyclist Corps
Battalion: 9th Battalion
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Comments: [Territorial]

In the 1911 Census he is recorded as being born in Lambeth, London. He was living at 76 Ballater Road, Stockwell, London with his parents Charles J & Mary and a brother Walter age 23 and sister Florence age 18. The address is still standing and is just off the A2217 Acre Lane

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The photo below at the NLI was taken by his brother Walter in Dublin (Walter took many photos of trams). It looks like Philip in uniform:

Harry Russell BRADDON Please refer to www.awm.gov.au/research/people/nominal_rolls/first_world_... and mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/details-permalink.aspx?barcod...

His Australian Army records can be seen here. recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3108176 On his enlistment form he stated he had been been born Ashfield, Cumberland ( The Archive itself states Ashfield is in New South Wales), and was then 22 years and 10 months old, (form dated 17.1.1916). His occupation was Barrister. he gave his next of kin as his father, Henry Yule Braddon of "Rohini", Turramurra, New South Wales. His educational qualification was a Law Degree from Sydney University.He was born 20th March 1893. At his medical he was 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed 132lbs, had brown hair, a dark complexion and Hazel eyes. Initally a Gunner, he was promoted Corporal on the 1.4.1916 and then Acting Sergeant on the 5.7.1916. His commission application is dated the 1.8.1916, at which point he was serving with the 116th Howitzer Battery. His fathers address is now given as c\o the Australian Trade Commission, 61 Broadway, New York, USA. He sailed from Sydney on the 30.9.1916, and arrived at Plymouth in the UK on the 19.11.1916. Initially he attended what looks like a "Range Finder" Course, before leaving for France on the 23.4.1917, arriving at Etaples the same day. He then bounced between various holding camps and units, finally being taken on the strength of the 13th battery on the 19.5.1917. He seems to have spent most of September and October in hospital being treated for P.U.O.(aka Pyrexia of unknown Origins which is doctors speak for you've got a fever but we don't know whats causing it !) During this time his promotion to Lieutenant was confirmed. After a convalescence, he was posted on the 25.10.1917 to 14th Battery, stationed in Belgium. 1918 was broken up by attending the Gas School, a period as Orderley Officer and spells of leave, either in the UK or Paris. His health deteriorated towards the end of the year (internal piles claimed another victim), and following the ceasing of hostilities he went before a medical board. There is a form covering assistance with finding him post-war employment - he was found a place on a course with The Council for Legal Education, Lincolns Inn, London in May 1919, but unfortunately the course was cancelled after three weeks. The report from his tutors was that he had made very good use of his time and opportunities, gaining very useful experience. On the 20.5.1919 it looks like he sailed for America at his own expense - he had been given a 90 days leave of absense conditional on him reporting in Sydney by the end of that period. He actually appeared before a discharge medical board in Sydney at the end of August 1919, and made a statement that he had suffered no disability as a result of his war service. His discharge was confirmed. He also had a brother Paul Dudley Braddon, a Medical Student who served with the Australian Army Service Corps. recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.a... He too was commissioned and served in France.He returned to Australia in March 1919. The New South Wales State Archive has a picture of a Doctor Paul Dudley Brannon, although its not currently available to view on line. search.records.nsw.gov.au/items/387570;jsessionid=5C1286A... The is an article in a newspaper from 1963 following Paul's death, here. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19630829&... It states he was the son of Sir Henry Braddon, a well known Sydney businessman. The Braddon family is a well known Australian family, one of whose members helped frame the first Federal Constitution and had a Canberra suburb named in his honor. The National Archives of Australia have the same picture of Harry posted on Flickr :-) www.flickr.com/photos/national-archives-of-australia/6456... From a family genealogy site. Henry Yule Braddon (son of Amy Georgina Palmer) was born 27 April 1863 in India, and died 8 September 1955 in Woollahra Sydney N.S.W.. He married (1) Bertha Mary Mathews Russell on 2 September 1891 in Strathfield Sydney. He married (2) Voilet Mary Inglis {nee Wheelihan} on 31 August 1944 in Paddington Sydney N.S.W More About Henry Yule Braddon and Bertha Mary Mathews Russell: Marriage: 2 September 1891, Strathfield Sydney. More About Henry Yule Braddon and Voilet Mary Inglis {nee Wheelihan}: Marriage: 31 August 1944, Paddington Sydney N.S.W.. Children of Henry Yule Braddon and Bertha Mary Mathews Russell are: Henry Russell Braddon, b. 1893, Sydney, d. 20 December 1932. Paul Dudley Braddon, b. 30 March 1894, d. 8 July 1963. familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/e/a/James-W-Neave/W...

Presumably related to Russell Braddon the novelist.

In the 1963 article reporting on Doctor Paul Braddon, it mentions that "Author Russell Braddon, a nephew of Dr Braddon will share about £70,000 from the estate with his sister"

Moominpappa06 Rohini St is a main street in Turramurra, a Northern Sydney suburb.