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Compiled by David Morgan Higgon, Midland Western Australia 2006

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Maria Scott - b: 1861 Quindalup, W.A  d: 22 Mar 1946 Bunbury, W.A    f: William Scott   m: Mary Ann Dawson

Albert on the marriage index Albert House  

ARTHUR ALBERT HOUSE                        Private    2339,                        43^rd Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Arthur Albert House Rank Private [Pte] Service Number 2339 Unit 43rd Bn Date of Death 31 July 1917 Cemetery or Memorial Details 29 The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium who died on   Tuesday 31 July 1917 .  Age 29 . Son of Albert and Ann House, of Gibson St., South Bunbury, Western Australia. Native of Capel, W A.  Rank Private 2339 Unit 43 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 6 Reinforcements (June-December 1916) Ship Name HMAT Port Melbourne Ship number A16 Date of embarkation 30 October 1916 Place of embarkation Fremantle

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
 

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.      Panel 7-17-23-25-27-29-31 Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menin) and Courtrai (Kortrijk).

Each night at 8 pm the traffic is stopped at the Menin Gate while members of the local Fire Brigade sound the Last Post in the roadway under the Memorial's arches.

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations except New Zealand who died in the Salient before 16 August 1917.    The YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known.  

Ruben William HOUSE         :           He attended Bunbury State School.               Occupation was a labourer when he enlisted in WWI.

DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER

REUBEN WILLIAM HOUSE                      Private   3774,             51st Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F

who died on   Wednesday 24 April 1918 .   Age 27 .                                                Son of Albert and Ann House, of Gibson St., South Bunbury, Western Australia. Born Capel, W A.

Rank Private 3774 Unit 51 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 11 Reinforcements (April 1916 - October 1917) Ship Name HMAT Borda Ship number A30 Date of embarkation 29 June 1917 Place of embarkation Fremantle

ADELAIDE CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX

ADELAIDE CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX, Somme, France. Grave or Reference Panel Number: III. J. 5.

Villers-Bretonneux is a town 16 kilometres east of Amiens, it became famous in 1918, when the German advance on Amiens ended in the capture of the village by their tanks and infantry on 23 April. On the following day, the 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, with units of the 8th and 18th Divisions, recaptured the whole of the village and on 8 August 1918, the 2nd and 5th Australian Divisions advanced from its eastern outskirts in the Battle of Amiens. Adelaide Cemetery was begun early in June 1918 and used by the 2nd and 3rd Australian Divisions. It continued in use until the Allies began their advance in mid August, by which time it contained 90 graves (the greater part of the present Plot I, Rows A to E). After the Armistice a large number of graves were brought into the cemetery from small graveyards and isolated positions on the north, west and south of Villers-Bretonneux and they were, without exception, those of men who died in the months from March to September 1918. Plot I was filled, Plot II was made almost entirely with graves from United Kingdom units, and Plot III almost entirely with Australian. There are now 955 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 261 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 4 casualties known, or believed to be buried among them.  On 2 November 1993, following a request by the government of Australia, an unknown Australian soldier killed in the First World War was exhumed from Plot III, Row M, Grave 13, and is now buried in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Ref: Sheryl Knight