Arthur Stanley EYLES
Regimental number 867
Place of birth Koonya, Tasmania
School State School
Religion Church of England
Occupation Labourer
Address Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 23
Next of kin Father, J W Eyles, Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Enlistment date 13 April 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 13 April 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 26th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/43/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 29 June 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 26th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 29 July 1916
Place of death or wounding Pozieres, Somme Sector, France
Age at death 24
Age at death from cemetery records 24
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.
On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.
After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 107
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: John Wesley and Mary Alice EYLES. Native of Koonya, Tasmania
Family/military connections Cousin from Sydney, killed.
Regimental number 867
Place of birth Koonya, Tasmania
School State School
Religion Church of England
Occupation Labourer
Address Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 23
Next of kin Father, J W Eyles, Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Enlistment date 13 April 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 13 April 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 26th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/43/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 29 June 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 26th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 29 July 1916
Place of death or wounding Pozieres, Somme Sector, France
Age at death 24
Age at death from cemetery records 24
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.
On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.
After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 107
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: John Wesley and Mary Alice EYLES. Native of Koonya, Tasmania
Family/military connections Cousin from Sydney, killed.
Arthur Stanley EYLES
Regimental number 867
Place of birth Koonya, Tasmania
School State School
Religion Church of England
Occupation Labourer
Address Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 23
Next of kin Father, J W Eyles, Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Enlistment date 13 April 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 13 April 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 26th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/43/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 29 June 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 26th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 29 July 1916
Place of death or wounding Pozieres, Somme Sector, France
Age at death 24
Age at death from cemetery records 24
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.
On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.
After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 107
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: John Wesley and Mary Alice EYLES. Native of Koonya, Tasmania
Family/military connections Cousin from Sydney, killed.
Regimental number 867
Place of birth Koonya, Tasmania
School State School
Religion Church of England
Occupation Labourer
Address Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 23
Next of kin Father, J W Eyles, Lord Street, Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Enlistment date 13 April 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 13 April 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 26th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/43/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on 29 June 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 26th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 29 July 1916
Place of death or wounding Pozieres, Somme Sector, France
Age at death 24
Age at death from cemetery records 24
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.
The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra.
On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours.
After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 107
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: John Wesley and Mary Alice EYLES. Native of Koonya, Tasmania
Family/military connections Cousin from Sydney, killed.
Gravesite Details
Private, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.. Age: Unknown.
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