Wamsley, Cecil Carrington

Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Bragg, Edmund Allen Service Number 1494

Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula

Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Wamsley, Cecil Carrington Service Number 1017

Killed in Action 26th July 1916 Pozieres, France

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NAME Wamsley, Cecil Carrington

SERVICE NO 1017

UNIT 20th Battalion C Coy/

RANK Private

AGE at Enlistment 24 yrs 4 mths

PLACE OF BIRTH Ourimbah, NSW

ADDRESS

OCCUPATION Bushman

DATE OF ENLISTMENT 26 Mar 1915

PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT

Liverpool, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE

NEXT OF KIN Mother;- Eliza Wamsley, “Ivy Cottage” Ourimbah

Father;- Archibald Albert Ernest Walmsley

PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION

Height-5’8¾”. Weight 152lbs. Chest-31½-34½”. Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Hazel. Hair-Brown.

RELIGION C/E

EMBARKED 26 Jun 1915- Sydney per A 35 “Berrima”

DISEMBARKED

NOTES Posted missing 26 Jul 1916

WOUNDED/ILLNESS 25-26 Jul 1916- hit by machine gun fire

DIED 26 Jul 1916 Pozieres, France (in the arms of his friend Henry James Walsh no 1782, 20

th Btn).

BURIED

MEDALS 1914-15 Star-18827, British War Medal-15986, Victory Medal-15915. Memo-rial Plaque & Scroll-330416.

DEPENDANTS

PERSONAL EFFECTS 3 Handkerchiefs, pipe in case, diary, military book, gloves, cards/

WILL

CORRESPONDENCE Eliza Walmsley/

REMARKS

RED CROSS REPORT Known as “Curley Wamsley”/

Gosford Times 10

th December 1915

Private C.C. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, writing to the “Gosford Times” from Anzac, Gallipoli, under date 19

th October, says:-

Just a line to thank you for for your welcome paper – “the “Gosford Times”. We have been in the trenches for seven weeks, and are feeling O.K. A few of the 20

th have gone un-

der, but the wounds of others only seem to make the boys more determined than ever.

Gosford Times 25

th January 1917

A photo of Private C.C. Wamsley, of Ourimbah (reported missing), appears in Friday’s TELEGRAPH, also Private Wil-liam Tier, killed in action.

Gosford Times 5

th April 1917

PRIVATE “CURLY” WALMSLEY Though Private “Curly” Wamsley, son of Mr and Mrs A.E. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, was reported missing in France on 26

th July last year, no official notification of his death has been

received from the military authorities. Private letters, how ever, forwarded from comrades who were eye witnesses to his death on the battlefield. Private Walsh, who belonged to the 20

th Battalion with “Curly”, was wounded in the same bayo-

net charge, and has been invalided home. He makes the fol-lowing report to the Australian Red Cross Society – I knew “Curly” Wamsley in Egypt and Gallipoli. He transferred while he was in Egypt into the 20

th Transport Service and rejoined

my Company about a week before 26th July, 1916. I was with

him for a week after the attack at Pozieres – We charges to-gether about 2 a.m. on the 26

th. I was wounded early in the

charge in the first line of German trenches. At the finish of the charge, about 7 or 8 a.m., I was returning to our lines to be attended to, when I met Wamsley, who was wounded in the chest or arm. I stopped in a shell hole and he went on. I moved on later and took shelter in another shell hole where I found Wamsley. He had been badly wounded by a machine gun, and had about eight bullet wounds. I cut off his trousers and bound him up, but whilst doing so he died in my arms. He could not speak when I met him the second time, but was semi-conscious. I laid him down dead, and made my way back to our lines.

Gosford Times 10

th May 1917

Bert Wamsley, second eldest son of Mr and Mrs A.A. E. Wam-sley, of Ourimbah, who is determined to do his bit in connection with the war, sailed in the Laborers’ Battalion on Tuesday last. Owing to the loss of an eye, Bert had been rejected no less than three times for active service, so he decided to try the Laborers’ Unit, and was duly accepted. Bert is brother to “Curly” Wamsley who has variably reported missing, a prisoner of war, and killed, but his parents inform us that no official news of his death or whereabouts has been received by them.

Gosford Times 27

th September 1917

... ROLL OF HONOR Official information is also just to hand of the death of Private C.C. (Curly) Wamsley, of the 20

th Battalion, son of

Mr and Mrs A.A. E. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, who was pre-viously reported missing. The official information is that he was killed in action on July 26, 1916. ...

Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 8361813

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