Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

25/08/1914

Date of Discharge

03/02/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Queanbeyan (possibly Tuggeranong) NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Harden NSW (previously Tuggeranong ACT)

Occupation

Assayer

Next of Kin

Mary Ann Oram (mother), Harden NSW

Service Number

28

Final Rank

Lance Corporal

Final Unit

1 Field Ambulance AIF

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

Yeomans embarked from Sydney in October 1914 with the 1st Field Ambulance and landed on Gallipoli in April 1915. He stayed there until the evacuation in December 1915 and, after a short period in Egypt, was sent to France in March 1916. The 1st Field Ambulance was at Pozieres in July and August 1916 at which time Yeomans was made a Lance Corporal. They served on the Somme at Flers during the winter of 1916, at the Second Battle of Bullecourt in May 1917, at the battles around Ypres in late 1917, Hazebrouck during early 1918 and on the Somme later that year.

He returned to Australia in January 1919 for discharge. After the war Yeomans moved to New Guinea and lived in the gold mining district of Bulolo. At the time of his death on 1 June 1970 he was described as a mining engineer of Vaucluse in Sydney.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 144 pounds, chest 36 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, Church of England, small birthmark on his upper arm.

Queanbeyan Age - 11 January 1893
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
NSW Government Gazette No.147, 13 November 1970 (p.4587)