Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

31/08/1914

Date of Discharge

29/08/1917

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Potter

Next of Kin

Eva Winfield (wife), Burton-on-Trent, England

Service Number

12

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

9 Battalion AIF

Winfield was an Englishman from Leicestershire who worked as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from February 1912 until he enlisted on 31 August 1914 at RMC. After embarking in October 1914 he served with the 3rd Brigade Headquarters on Gallipoli but was hospitalised with rheumatism. He arrived in France on 2 April 1916 with his unit, serving in Flanders before the 3rd Brigade moved to Pozieres in July. According to his Certificate of Discharge, Winfield was with the 9th Battalion. He was sent to hospital in England in October 1916 with myalgia and did not return to the front line. He was discharged in London on 29 August 1917 being permanently unfit for service and lived at Burton-on-Trent in England.

Description - height 5 feet 3½ inches, weight 137 pounds, chest 34½ -36 inches, dark complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Queanbeyan Age - 19 September 1916
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)