Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 25/01/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 01/01/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Goulburn NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Captains Flat NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Federal Territory near Queanbeyan (Oaks Estate ACT)
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Next of Kin
- Alfred Apps (father), Federal Territory near Queanbeyan (Oaks Estate ACT)
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 2122
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 55 Battalion AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Notes
Apps and his family lived in Oaks Estate at the time of his enlistment as part of the Men from Snowy River Route March. He joined the 55th Battalion on the front line near Flers on Christmas Eve, 1916 and was part of the attack on Doignies in April 1917. The following month he was at the Second Battle of Bullecourt but a fractured forearm, suffered in July 1917 when employed as a company runner, meant he was sent to England for treatment.
On 13 May 1918 he married Marie Louise Pasquet at Folkestone in England and they returned to Australia in October that year. He was living in Arncliffe in Sydney when he died on 24 July 1971 at the Concord Repatriation Hospital.
Description - height 6 feet, weight 155 pounds, chest 34-37 inches, sallow complexion, brown eyes, black hair, Church of England.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
ACT Electoral Rolls 1916 to 1967 http://canberraheritageportal.org/default.php
Commonwealth Electoral Roll, Eden-Monaro (1909)
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Narelle O'Rourke, 'A Country Nurse and Midwife', 1989
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'The Men from Snowy River', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial
Queanbeyan Age - 25 January 1916, 30 May 1916
Sydney Morning Herald - 26 July 1971
Ryerson Index http://ryerson.arkangles.com/notices.php
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.2, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)