LIVERPOOL PIONEERS’MEMORIAL PARK

(THE ‘OLD’ CEMETERY, 1821 – 1958)
LIVERPOOL’SWW SERVICE PERSONNEL

Service personnel have been trained at Holsworthy military training area, just south of Liverpool, since the late 1880’s. Initially, the NSW militia (volunteer soldiers) conducted training  exercises and manoeuvres there. Training became intensive during the build up to World War 1, and many service personnel from there served with the AIF overseas from 1914.

The 40 soldiers listed below all passed away between 1914 - 1922. Some were casualties prior to embarkation, but many died in 1915 in France, Turkey, and Egypt, where they lie   buried. Memorial tombstones were erected in this cemetery by their relatives even though their bodies lay in graves overseas. Several soldiers died from Spanish influenza brought back with them on their return to Liverpool from Europe in 1919.

Nearly all official memorials were removed in 1962 when the Australian War Graves Commission decided to commemorate these personnel formally at the NSW Garden of Remembrance at Rookwood Cemetery. However, the remains of those buried in this Park lie undisturbed here, together with a few memorial headstones.

SurnameInitials Age of
Death
Date of
Death
ATKINSON PERCY WILLIAM P W   24/10/1915
BEATTIE STEWART MILLER S M   27/05/1918
BLYTH JACK WESTWATER J W   21/07/1917
BROWN ROYAL VIVIAN R V   22/10/1915
BUDGE SYDNEY ALFRED S A   21/09/1915
BURRELL ROBERT J. R J   14/10/1916
BUSH MICHAEL M   28/02/1916
COBB ARTHUR A   1/10/1915
CORPSE WILLIAM FREDERICK W F   7/08/1915
COTTON GORDON A. G A   15/02/1915
COULTER GEORGE EDMUND G E   18/08/1915
EVANS ERNEST DUDLEY E D   5/06/1916
EVERARD EDMUND HENRY E H 28 8/06/1915
FIELDER EDWARD CORNELIUS E C   28/08/1915
FLANNERY EDWARD E   16/11/1914
FORD GEORGE THOMAS G T   26/12/1915
GIBSON HENRY WATSON H W   5/05/1915
HARRIS THOMAS T   4/02/1915
HORTON RONALD.C R C   16/06/1919
HUNTER WARD W   5/09/1915
IRELAND ERNEST E   26/09/1915
MAGEE THOMAS T   26/01/1916
MALLISE EDWARD E   10/03/1916
MORTENSON CHRISTIAN PAUL C P   7/02/1916
MOY HERBERT NICHOLAS H N   22 6/07/1915
McKAY DANIEL STOCKDALE D S   8/09/1915
NOLAN THOMAS T   3/06/1915
OSBORNE HAROLD H   20/05/1915
PLATT KENNETH GEOFFREY K G   3/08/1915
POLHILL HERBERT WILLIAM H W   23/08/1917
POULSEN ALBERT JOSEPH A J   1/02/19161
RUDDER WILFRED NORMAN W N   16/02/1916
SCOLES ALFRED A   14/04/1916
SMITH CALEB MEDCRAFT C M   17/08/1915
TUNBRIDGE FREDERICK WILLIAM F W   29/12/1915
WAKELEY WALTER SAMSON W S   29/07/1915
WAKELING ROBERT HENRY R H   18/08/1915
WHITE RICHARD SIBFORD R S   26/05/1915
WILLIAMSON SYDNEY CHARLES S C   22/11/1915
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