world war 1914 • Find • State Library of South Australia

Alfred Stancliffe

1916, Photograph, B 46130/58

No. 563 Private Alfred Stancliffe, born Broken Hill, New South Wales. Enlisted 22 October 1914. Served Egypt. Returned to Australia 1919.

Thomas Sporle

1916, Photograph, B 46130/59

No.1338 Gunner Thomas Henry Sporle, born Bendigo, Victoria, 1881, enlisted 16th Infantry Battalion 28 November 1914. Returned to Australia, died Victoria 1941.

Frederick Swaark

1916, Photograph, B 46130/61

No. 1919 Private Frederick Swaark, born Tasmania, 1894. Enlisted 12th Infantry Battalion 5 December 1914. Served Gallipoli, returned to Australia 1916.

Albert Victor Stidston

1916, Photograph, B 46130/62

Albert Victor Stidston, 1st Australian Imperial Force.

No. 755 Private Andrew James Marchant, 3rd Lighthorse Regiment, was born in Victoria. He was a farmer and 26 years old at the time of his enlistment at Oaklands, South Australia, on 24 November, 1914. Returned to Australia 1919. Believed to have been photographed at Morphettville Camp.

Clarence Mara

1915, Photograph, B 46130/77

No. 2195 Private Clarence John Mara, born Jamestown, South Australia, 22 December 1896. Enlisted 10th Battalion 3 March 1915 at Oaklands, South Australia. Taken as prisoner of war at Pozieres on 22 August 1916. Returned to Australia 1919.

George Leslie Levy

1915, Photograph, B 46130/92

No. 7037 George Leslie Levy, 8th Reinforcement, 4th Light Horse, was born in Essex, England, the son of Jesper Levy, before moving to Adelaide. George was a seaman in the Australian Naval Reserve and 18 years old at the time of his attestation on 22 February 1915 in Oaklands, SA. He was a driver in No. 4 Company of the Australian Army Service Corps and served in France. He survived the war and returned to Australia in 1919.

Andrew Alexander Millar

1916, Photograph, B 46130/110

No. 872 Private Andrew Alexander Millar, born Port William, Scotland, 1894. Enlisted 3rd Light Horse 4 December 1914. Served Gallipoli, Egypt, France. Transferred as Gunner to 4th Division Artillery 24 April 1916. Wounded in action 17 July 1917. Returned to Australia 1919.

Trooper Olson

1916, Photograph, B 46130/114

James Olson, service number 562, enlisted on December 9th 1914 and embarked with 'C' Squadron, 11th Light Horse Regiment on June 2nd 1915. He was transferred to the 4th Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron in March 1917 under Captain Bryant. He was discharged on October 22nd 1919 and died February 22nd 1968 in Murray Bridge.

Robert Nenke

Marchant Studios, 1915, Photograph, B 46130/135

Corporal Robert Nenke, 1st Australian Imperial Force.

Robert Nenke

Marchant Studios, 1915, Photograph, B 46130/136

Corporal Robert Nenke, 1st Australian Imperial Force.

Stirling Clement White

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/145

No. 2143 Private Stirling Clement White, born Willamulka, South Australia, with wife Minnie Margaret White nee Dorward and son Clement Clyde White. Enlisted 16th Battalion 11 March 1915. Served Gallipoli and France, wounded Gallipoli 13 August 1915. Promoted Corporal 1916. Returned to Australia 1917.

James Curran Woods

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/189

No.200 Private James Curran Woods, A Company, 43rd Infantry Battalion, was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1891. He enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia, on 14 January 1916 and arrived in France on 20 July 1916. He returned to Adelaide on 29 June 1919 and was discharged from the AIF on 25 May 1920, medically unfit. James died in Broken Hill on 14 March 1923 as a result of complications arising from his war service. He is buried in the Roman catholic portion of the Broken Hill cemetery.

Trooper William Knibbs

Marchant Studios, 1914, Photograph, B 46130/192

No. 719 Trooper William John Knibbs, born Oodnadatta 22 August 1894. 9th Light Horse Regiment, killed in action 29 August 1915 at Hill 60, Gallipoli.

Walter Lindsay Marcus

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/196

No. 1077 Driver Walter Lindsay Marcus, born near Naracoorte, South Australia, 5 April 1896. Enlisted 4th Field Ambulance 22 September 1914. Served Gallipoli and France. Returned to Australia 1919.

Willis Morrell

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/217

No.934 Willis Henry Gordon Morrell, born Kensington, England, 1887. Enlisted 9th Light Horse Regiment at Oaklands, South Australia, 2 December 1914. Returned to Australia 1916. Believed to have been photographed at Morphettville Camp.

Trooper McQuinnie

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/220

Trooper McQuinnie on a horse at Morphettville Camp outside the Lodge. [Believed by a researcher to be Thomas Hector McQueen, regimental number 545, who enlisted in Dec 1914. Hence would likely be at Morphettville - National Archives Australia file shows originally with 9th Light Horse (later trans to 11th Light Horse) - which was then at Morphettville.]

James Alexander Miller

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/224/1

No.1716 Private James Alexander Miller, born Surry Hills, New South Wales. Enlisted 10th Infantry Battalion at Oaklands, South Australia, 27 November 1914. Wounded in action, France, 28 June 1918. Returned to Australia 1919.

Cochrane Family

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/244

No. 525 Andrew Downie Cochrane, No. 515 Donald James Cochrane and their mother Anges Downie Cochrane. Andrew Cochrane born Dundee, Scotland. Enlisted at Keswick, South Australia, 8 February 1915. Died of wounds at Gallipoli 9 December 1915. Donald Cochrane born Dundee, Scotland, 1873. Enlisted at Adelaide, South Australia, 3 September 1915. Served France, taken Prisoner of War 10 July 1917. Returned to Australia 1919. Died 19 May 1954. According to a family historian, this photograph is of Andrew Cochrane on the left and Reginald Cochrane on the left, not his brother Donald.

Frank Johnson MM MSM

Marchant Studios, 1916, Photograph, B 46130/250

Frank Percival Johnson, born Laura, South Australia, 8 May 1891. Enlisted at Oaklands, South Australia, 30 November 1914. Served Gallipoli and France. 3rd Field Ambulance. Awarded Military Medal (MM) for bravery in the field and the Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders. Returned to Australia 1919. Died South Australia 14 February 1958.