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Hugh Richard (Dick) BIGGIN - KIA - ID# 009
"Yours till the cows come home"
True to character, the charismatic larrikin, Hugh (Dick) Biggin undertook the strenuous climb to the top of the Cheops Pyramid on that tenth day of January 1915. There he was photographed amidst his 11th Battalion comrades, bayonet in hand and a half smile on his handsome face. He was but metres away from a relative by marriage, David (Pink Top) Simcock who occupied the uppermost position on the pyramid.
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Christopher FORREST – KIA & George HENDERSON SMITH – KIA & Cheops ID#'s unknown
"This war is a sorry thing for Australia..."
Chris Forrest (left) and George Henderson Smith (right) enlisted in the AIF at Blackboy Hill, Western Australia in the August of 1914. Chris was twenty, George nineteen.
A combined tribute to these close friends is presented under the article for >> George HENDERSON SMITH
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George HENDERSON SMITH – KIA & Christopher FORREST – KIA, Cheops ID#'s unknown
"This war is a sorry thing for Australia..."
George Holt Henderson Smith (above left) and Chris Forrest (above right) enlisted in the AIF at Blackboy Hill, Western Australia in the August of 1914. Chris was twenty, George nineteen.
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John Edward HILL - RTA - ID# Not yet identified
John Edward Hill was the second of thirteen children born to Edgar William and Amelia Hill (nee Brown).
He was known as Jack and J.E. and worked as an iron turner in England before migrating to Australia.
We are yet to identify young John Hill in the 11th Battalion Cheops photo.
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Crispin Kenworthy BATTYE - KIA - ID# 499
Crispin Kenworthy Battye was born in the summer of 1876 at Hindmarsh, which is an inner western suburb of Adelaide.
Crispin was the sixth of eleven children born to William and Sarah Battye, with three sisters and seven brothers, although four of the children died in infancy. All the children were born in the Hindmarsh area.
His father William had a younger brother also named Crispin Kenworthy Battye.
It is likely that with a large family, the children’s education was fairly basic.
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Frank Henry Burton ADCOCK (394) - KIA - ID# 343
Frederick Brenchley ADCOCK (1044) - KIA - ID# 341
"The War will involve much suffering"
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