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Roll of Honour - World Word 1

The following list of persons enlisted in the First World War.  Further details and copies of service records can be obtained from the National Archives. Click on the 'mapping our anzac' links beside each of the names to go to their service records, which you can then download and print.

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Herman Baker  parents Alfred & Ellen Baker (nee Mathews) – Mapping Our Anzacs Link
Date of Birth - 14 Feb 1900
Place of Birth - Boggabri
Next of Kin - E White (Mother)

·         Service number: 2766

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 34 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 6 Reinforcements (May-November 1916)

·         Date of embarkation: 25 November 1916

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Beltana

Note: Herman Baker apparently took the name of Herbert (his younger brother - my Grandfather), when he enlisted in the army.  Date of enlistment: 26/09/1916 - aged 18 years 9 months (seeing that he was born in 1900 - he really would only have been 16 years old).

Wallace Baker - (older brother to Herman Baker) parents Alfred & Ellen Baker (nee Mathews) – Mapping Our Anzacs Link.
Date of Birth -
Place of Birth - Boggabri
Next of Kin - E White (Mother)

·         Service number: 9

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 34 Infantry Battalion (May 1916)

·         Date of embarkation: 2 May 1916

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Hororata

David George Guest - Mapping Our Anzacs

Parents David George & Susan Guest nee Bake
4th Filed Ambulance joined 22/4/1915 - aged 24 yrs 11 months
Father David George Guest
Next of Kin - Jane
Place of birth - Boggabri
Profession - Teacher.

·         Service number: 3809

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 30 Infantry Battalion - 7 to 12 Reinforcements (May-November 1916)

·         Date of embarkation: 24 August 1916

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Anchises

Darcy Guest – Mapping Our Ancestors Link

Parents David George & Susan Guest nee Baker
Place of birth - Boggabri
Next of Kin - David George Guest.

·         Service number: 2383

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 18 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 13 Reinforcements (May 1915 - June 1916)

·         Date of embarkation: 5 October 1915

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Themistocles

George Francis McGuire – Mapping Our Anzacs Link

·         Service number: 533

·         Rank: Trooper

·         Unit: 7th Australian Light Horse

·         Service: Australian Army

·         Conflict: 1914-1918

·         Date of death: 9 August 1916

·         Cause of death: Killed in action

·         Cemetery or memorial details: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt

·         War Grave Register notes: McGUIRE, Tpr. George Francis, 533. 7th Australian Light Horse. Killed in action 9th Aug., 1916. Age 25. Son of Thomas Joseph and Emma Ann McGuire, of Boggabri, New South Wales. Native of Gunnedah, New South Wales

James John McGuire – Mapping Our Anzacs Link

·         Service number: 834

·         Rank: Private

·         Unit: 33rd Battalion (Infantry)

·         Service: Australian Army

·         Conflict: 1914-1918

·         Date of death: 16 April 1918

·         Cause of death: Died of wounds

·         Cemetery or memorial details: Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France

·         War Grave Register notes: McGUIRE, Pte. James John, 834. 33rd Bn. Australian Inf. Died of wounds 16th April, 1918. Age 42. Son of Thomas Joseph and Emma Ann McGuire, of Boggabri, New South Wales. II. A. 4.

·         Refer also to the Red Cross Wounded & Missing file

Walter Patrick McGuire – Mapping Our Anzacs link (Cousin of George Francis & James John McGuire listed above)

Born Gunnedah Parents: Francis McGuire & Maryann Dilworth
Joined 11 December 1915
Next of Kin - Francis McGuire (father)

·         Service number: 138

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 34 Infantry Battalion (May 1916)

·         Date of embarkation: 2 May 1916

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Hororata

·         Ship number: A20

Note: Walter left on the same ship as Wallace Baker


John McCormack – Mapping Our Anzacs

3rd Battalion - 18th G S Reinforcement - Joined April 1918 - aged 20 years 5 months. 

John originally joined in August 1915 at aged 18 yrs but was declared medically unfit for service in October 1915. Next of Kin Patrick Arthur McCormack - place of birth - Branxton - mother Ellen - born 1897.

·         Service number: 65800

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 16 to 27 (NSW) Reinforcements (September-November 1918)

·         Date of embarkation: 4 September 1918

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Bakara

Thomas Fredrick McCormack - Mapping Our Anzacs

3rd Battalion - joined 6/12/1915 - aged 22 years - father - Patrick McCormack - mother Ellen Dowd  next of Kin - Father Patrick McCormack. - Profession - Carter.

·         Service number: 505

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 35 Infantry Battalion (May 1916)

·         Date of embarkation: 1 May 1916

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Benalla

Frederick George Richer - Mapping Our Anzacs

Note: Originally Frederick enlisted under the name of Fred Dennis and his mother was his next of Kin. He married Maude whilst in London just before returning to Sydney.

·         Service number: 894

·         Rank: Driver

·         Roll title: 2 FAB [Field Artillery Brigade] (October 1914)

·         Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918

·         Date of embarkation: 20 October 1914

·         Place of embarkation: Melbourne

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Shropshire

Walter Watson – Mapping Our Anzacs (1) and Mapping Our Anzac (2).
Parents John Watson & Sarah Watson (nee Baker).
Walter 'deserted' soon after enlisting in 1915 and then re-enlisted, hence two service records.
Joined 10.2.1915
Joined 28.3.1917

Next of Kin - John Watson (Father) 

·         Service number: 3318

·         Rank: Private

·         Roll title: 6 LHR [Light Horse Regiment] - 15 to 34 Reinforcements (March 1916 - March 1918)

·         Date of embarkation: 9 May 1917

·         Place of embarkation: Sydney

·         Ship embarked on: HMAT Port Sydney