‘Kalgoorlie Boys’
The following photograph are from the “The Soldiers of Barrack Street” collection and are the work of famed West Australian photographer Denis Dease who operated the Dease studio at 117 Barrack Street from 1898 to 1929. Dease was a prolific photographer of great importance.These photographs are all men with connections to Kalgoorlie. The full collection and access to service recordfs can be viewed at:- http://www.thesoldiersofbarrackstreet.com/ The next post will be the ‘Boulder Boys’.
Corporal Plant William 16th Battalion
Regimental Number: 4549
Address: 33 Hinemoa Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs E Plant, 70 Kardon Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 08 July 1915
Unit Name: 16th Battalion
Corporal PLANT, William,
Lance Corporal GREGSON, John, 5th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company
Rank: 2nd Corporal; later Lance Corporal Regimental Number: 925
Address: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mrs Mary E Gregson, 183 McDonald Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 15 January 1917
Unit Name: 5th Australian Broad Guage Railway Operating Company
Date of Death: 07 May 1905
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 82 years old.
Place of Death: Nedlands, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1917
Cprl John Gregson
Private MCCULLOCH, John, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private Regimental Number: 3094
Address: 87 Campbell Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs J McCulloch, 87 Campbell Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 26 June 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion Year of Photo: 1915
Private MCCULLOCH, John, 11th Battalion
Private CUNNINGHAM, Andrew, 11th Battalion Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1925
Address: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother: Mrs Alice Cunningham, 47 Vivian Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 28 January 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion
Date of Death: 21 May 1931
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 50 years old.
Place of Death: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1915
Private Andrew Cunningham
Private ELLSWORTHY, Charles, 12th Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 3072
Address: Kitchener Road, Lamington Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs M Ellsworthy, Kitchener Road, Lamington, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 13 July 1915
Unit Name: 12th Battalion
Date of Death: 10 April 1922
Cause of Death: Accidentally run over by a train.
Place of Death: East Coolgardie, Western Australia
Year of Photo:1915
Charles Ellsworthy
Corporal SHEPHERD, John, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private; later Corporal
Regimental Number: 3956
Address: 50 Bourke Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother: Mrs M Shepherd, 50 Bourke Street Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 07 September 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion; later 3rd Trench Mortar Battery
Date of Death: 12 November 1937
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 57 years old.
Place of Death: Port Augusta, South Australia
Year of Photo: 1915
Cprl John Shepherd
Sergeant, RADBOURN, Allen Livingstone, 10th Light Horse Regiment
Rank: Sergeant
Regimental Number: 1731
Address: 287 Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie
Next of Kin: Father Nelius Radbourn, 287 Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie
Enlistment Date: 12th July 1915
Unit Name: 10th Light Horse Regiment
Date of Death: 17 December 1964
Cause of Death: Not known, he was 72 years old
Place of Death: Albany, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1915
Allen RADBOURNE
Signaller/Private FOGARTY, Thomas Joseph, 28th Battalion
Rank: Signaller/Private
Regimental Number: 3014
Address: 16 Forrest Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Cornelius John Fogarty, 16 Forrest Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 6 September 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion
Date of Death: 4 August 1916
Cause of Death: Killed in action, aged 24 years.
Place of Death: Pozieres, France
Year of Photo: 1915
Signaller/Private FOGARTY, Patrick John, 28th Battalion
Rank: Signaller/Private
Regimental Number: 3095
Address: 16 Forrest Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Cornelius John
Enlistment Date: 7 September 1915
Unit Name: 28 Battalion
Date of Death: 21 September 1973
Cause of Death: Not known, he was 79 years old
Place of Death: Como, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1915
Note: Thomas Joseph Fogarty is in the front row, left. His brother Patrick John Fogarty is seated next to him on the right.
Private BRABNER, George Alexander, 11th Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 7442
Address: Tennyson Street, Bellevue
Next of Kin: Father, J. Brabner. All British Camp, Kurrawong, Kalgoorlie W.A.
Enlistment Date: 24 January 1916
Unit Name: 11th Battalion
Date of Death: 9 April 1918
Cause of Death: Killed In Action
Place of Death: Hollebeke, Belgium
Year of Photo: 1916
George Brabner
Private DORAN, George Daniel, 4th Machine Gun Company
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 239
Address: Transcontinental Railway Office, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, G. Doran, Wentworth Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 09 March 1916
Unit Name: 4th Machine Gun Company
Date of Death: 21 January 1945
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 61 years old.
Place of Death: Port Augusta, SA
Year of Photo: 1916
George D Doran
Private EASTWOOD, Stanley Stephen, 2nd Field Ambulance
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 8301
Address: Great Boulder Hotel, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Steve Eastwood, 154 Bagot Rd, Subiaco, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 26 July 1915
Unit Name: 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital;later 2nd Field Ambulance
Date of Death: 27 June 1943
Cause of Death: No Record
Place of Death: Subiaco, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1915
Stanley S Eastwood
Corporal KINGSBURY, Harold Arthur, 10th Field Co Engineers
Rank: Gunner; later Corporal
Regimental Number: 34367
Address: Guildford Road, Maylands, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs I L Kingsbury, Guildford Road, Maylands, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 20 August 1916
Unit Name: Field Artillery Brigade; later 10th Field Company Engineers
Date of Death: 1946
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 55 years old.
Place of Death: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916-1917
Harold A Kingsbury
Private BUSSELL, Darcy, 1st Machine Gun Squadron
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 102
Address: 87 Northwood Street, West Leederville, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Charles Bussell, 87 Northwood Street, West Leederville, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 14 May 1917
Unit Name: 1st Machine Gun Squadron
Date of Death: 26 February 1937
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 37 years old.
Place of Death: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1917
Darcy Bussell
Private MULLINS, John, 28th Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2189
Address: Wittenoom Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Susan Mullins, Monger (now Northwood) Street, Leederville, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 23 July 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion
Date of Death: 05 November 1917
Cause of Death: Died of wounds aged 32
Place of Death: Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium
Year of Photo: 1915
John Mullins
Private KIMBER, Percy, 51st Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 3171
Address: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Sarah Kimber. 107 Milton road, Southampton, England
Enlistment Date: 20 September 1916
Unit Name: 51st Battalion
Date of Death: 26 February 1974
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 65 years old.
Place of Death: Trigg, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916
Percy Kimber
Sapper SIZER, Albert Henry, 3rd Tunnelling Comany
Rank: Private; later Sapper
Regimental Number: 2025
R2025
Address: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Boulder, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs. E. Sizer, 307 McCrae Street, Bendigo, Victoria
Enlistment Date: 28 January 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion; later 3rd Tunnelling Company
Date of Death: 10 April 1951
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 58 years old
Place of Death: South Perth, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1915
Albert Henry Sizer
Driver PARK, George, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Company
Rank: Driver
Regimental Number: 24427
Address: 112 Piccadilly Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, J J Park, 137 Parry Street, Perth, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 24 January 1915
Unit Name: 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column
Date of Death: 17 May 1951
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 57 years old.
Place of Death: Northam, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916
George Park
Sapper WATKINS, Clifton Alwyn, 4th Divisional Signal Co
Rank: Sapper
Regimental Number: 17903
Address: 165 Havelock Street, West Perth, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Walter Wallace Watkins, 165 Havelock Street, West Perth, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 03 July 1916
Unit Name: 4th Divisional Signal Company
Date of Death: 05 September 1929
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 31 years old
Place of Death: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916-1917
Clifton Alwyn Watkins
Private WEEKS, William John 44th Battalion
Regimental Number: 158
Address: Merredin, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Brother, Charles Weeks, Charlton Village, Kent, England
Enlistment Date: 14 January 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion
Date of Death: 25 September 1965
Cause of Death: Not known. He was 80 years old
Place of Death: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916
William John Weeks
Lance Corporal GILL, William Henry, 44th Battalion
Rank: Private; later Lance Corporal
Regimental Number: 369
Address: C/- J & W Bateman, Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Uncle, William Donovan, Rockhampton, Queensland
Enlistment Date: 24 January 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion
Date of Death: 22 February 1953
Cause of Death: Not known. 69 years old.
Place of Death: Perth, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916-1917
William Henry Gill
Private HANCOCK, Maurice Ingram Vincent, 51st Battalion
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1921
Address: 1 Sawells Terrace, Hamilton Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Emma Jane Hancock, 44 King Street, Boulder, Western Australia
Enlistment Date: 4 April 1916
Unit Name: 51st Battalion
Date of Death: 1965
Cause of Death: Not known. 71 years old
Place of Death: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
Year of Photo: 1916
Maurice Ingram Hancock
Moya Sharp
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Do you have any information on the Mc Laughlin family from Kalgoorlie????
What years are you looking at?
Hello Moyà, so very interesting to see these photographs of EG members. In relation to the photograph attributed to Harold Arthur Kingsbury, the details of his service to not agree with the details of the gentleman in the photo. What I see in that photo is a sergeant of what looks like a member of the Light Horse Regiment. See his sergeant chevrons on the right sleeve, his leather leggings and Spurs on his boots and the plume of emu feathers in his slouch hat. I have had a look at H A Kingsbury digital record on line in the NAA and he definitely was not a Light Horseman; he was a bombardier in the Artillery Regiment. It is not my intention or purpose to diminish your excellent work here but accuracy in honouring these gentleman is desirable
Regards
JohnHanley
Hi John Thank you for getting in touch. As you will see, if you go direct to the Perth Museum site this is the photo they have under this name. It wasnt until you mentioned it that I noticed the hat and spurs. If you scroll down further you will see a second photo. Presumably of the same man. Do you think this is also him? Does the text that is with the photo seems correct to you,stating he was a Gunner?
Thanks Moyà; Yes, it is most probably the second photo that relates to Kingsbury. Of further interest in the photo we were discussing is the colour patch worn high on the right sleeve with the distinctive letter “A” which indicates an original Galipolli ANZAC and the years of service chevrons on the lower right sleeve. Above his sergeants stripes are his specialisation insignia which in this photo are crossed trumpets or bugles indicating that he was a bugler.
As the true Mr Kingsbury did not enlist until 1916, he could not be an original ANZAC, and nor was he a bugler by speciality.
It has now sparked my curiosity and I am going to attempt to,find the light horseman’s true identity. I will keep,you informed.
On another matter, I commented on the old goldfields hotels project which I fear did not get to you. In that comment I mentioned that I have in my possession the ledger book for one of the Broad Arrow hotel run by my ancestor James McMahon Hanley 1896/97. It’s a very interesting expose of business on the goldfields of that day. His wife Annie Hanley died there in 1897 and is buried in Broad Arrow. James went bankrupt from that venture but returned to the Goldfields and was either manager or licensee in quite a few establishments up until about 1915. He then went to work for the State Hotels Department and was the original manager of the Corrigin and Wongan Hills State Hotels
By the way, John Boileau, the original Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie chemist and Councilor is my great grandfather. I’m sure you have heard of him.
Regards
John Hanley
Hello Moya! It’s been a while since we last corresponded but I always read your posts. My interest was sparked by the photos of the Barrack Street boys, but in particular the forthcoming Boulder boys you mentioned. You may remember me sending you a long article about L/C W.T.(‘Billy’) Maddern, MM some time ago but I assume you found it too large to publish as I have not seen any reference to it since. He was a Boulder boy but enlisted in Kalgoorlie. I am hoping he may have been photographed too? He was in the 28th Btn,enlisted in 1915, left Australia in early 1916, fought at Pozieres and died at Ypres in Belgium in October 1917. Could you give me an idea of whether he might be among the ‘Boulder boys’ photographs or if you might some day use the material I sent you about his story? If it’s too big for your purposes, I am more than happy to edit it down to a shorter format. Looking forward to hearing from you. All good wishes…and I love your site! Colleen van Hemert