Western Australian Institution of Engineers (WAIE) - WWI Honour Roll

From Engineering Heritage Australia

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS WORLD WAR I HONOUR ROLL

NAME CIVILIAN POSITION AND MILITARY RANK COMMENT
Harry Bruce Bennett Engineering Assistant WAGR Captain Enlisted 26.7.1915

Mentioned in dispatches

Geoffrey Drake Brockman Civil Engineer

Major First World War Colonel Second World War

Enlisted 5.10.1914

Awarded Military Cross

Astley Charles Cooper* Engineer

Sergeant

Enlisted 14.8.1914

Killed in Action France 25.6.1917

W D Evans
Sidney Ernest Evans

Son of Ernest Alfred Evans WA Institution President

Civil Engineer

Captain Honorary Colonel Second World War

Enlisted 8.9.1914

Awarded Military Cross

William Robert Easton Licensed Surveyor and Civil Engineer Enlisted 12.3.1918

Awarded the Military Cross

Romilly Rooth Farrar

Son of George Edward Farrar WA Institution Treasurer

Electrical Engineer

Acting Sergeant

Enlisted 25.10.1916

Wounded in Action

Arthur James Hillman Civil Engineer

Captain

Enlisted 8.10.1915, Awarded Military Cross
A W Johnson Surveyor and Assistant Engineer PWD
Henry Kelly Civil Engineer

Sapper

Enlisted 26.11.1917
George Knight Kerslake* Civil Engineer’s Assistant

Lieutenant

Enlisted 27.6.1916

Killed in Action Roisel France

Frederick Washington Lawson

Founding National Vice President WA Division Chairman 1920

Civil and Mechanical Engineer

Major

Enlisted 31.12.1915

Distinguished Service Order repairing a water line under fire Mentioned in dispatches

William Leslie jnr

Son of William Leslie WA Institution President

Draftsman/Engineer

Lance Corporal

Enlisted 27.7.1915

Wounded by high explosive shell

John Pidgeon

Member WA Institution Council

Civil Engineer

Major

Enlisted 6.9.1915
John Morton Playne* Civil Engineer PWD Enlisted 5.10.1914

Killed in Action Lone Pine Gallipoli 7.8.1915 Surveying exposed to snipers

Louis Wilton Poole* Engineer and Licensed Surveyor

Sapper and Acting Sergeant

Enlisted 14.12.1916

Killed in Action 21.5.1918 France

Lawrence Adrian Renou* Civil Engineer PWD Enlisted 7.3.1915

Died from wounds received in France

Isaac Althorp Ridgway* Civil Engineer Commonwealth Lighthouse Service

Lieutenant

Enlisted 16.12.1914

Killed in Action 12.5.1915 Dardanelles

Basil Edward Watson Thomas Draftsman

Water Supply Department

Enlisted 17.4.1917
William Leigh Thomason Engineer

Lieutenant

Enlisted 12.7.1915, POW Germany
William Graves Townsend Engineer

Sergeant

Enlisted 16.6.1915
Raymond Hope Viner Draftsman

Lieutenant

Enlisted 27.9.1915

Crashed on his first solo flight 13.8.1918

  • Killed in Action

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