Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

22/09/1914

Date of Discharge

16/04/1919

Place of Enlistment

Marrickville NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Queanbeyan (possibly Tuggeranong) NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Harden NSW (previously Tuggeranong ACT)

Occupation

Railway fettler and porter

Next of Kin

Mary Ann Oram (mother), Harden NSW

Service Number

2610

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

8 Depot Unit of Supply AIF

Yeomans and his twin brother Tom both served in the war. They were possibly born at Tuggeranong where their father was based, working as a fettler on the railway. He was killed by a train in 1893.

Yeomans embarked from Sydney in December 1914 with the Railway Supply Detachment, Australian Army Service Corps. He served on Gallipoli from June 1915 but was evacuated with "cardiac" in September. He was transferred to the 8th Depot Unit of Supply in March and arrived in France in March 1916. Yeomans remained with this unit until the end of the war when he returned to Australia and was discharged. He was living in Beach Road, Bondi at the time of his death on 15 August 1942. Apparently he had suffered injuries to his respiratory organs years before and relied upon a tube in his throat to breath. While walking home he accidentally pulled out the tube causing his death.

Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 154 pounds, chest 33½-37 inches, florid complexion, hazel eyes, black hair, Church of England, tattoo of a life buoy on his right arm.

Queanbeyan Age - 11 January 1893
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Sydney Morning Herald - 17 August 1942