poppy2 Hugh Richard (Dick) BIGGIN - KIA - ID# 009

Pte. BIGGIN, Hugh Richard 150 - Cheops Pyramid 10 Jan 1915 - 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.

poppy2 Christopher FORREST – KIA & poppy2 George HENDERSON SMITH – KIA & Cheops ID#'s unknown

Pte. FORREST, Christopher Frank 431 - ca 1914 - Not ID'd in Cheops photo2nd Lt. HENDERSON - SMITH, George Holt 618 - ca 1914 - Not ID'd in Cheops photo


"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

poppy2 George HENDERSON SMITH – KIA & poppy2 Christopher FORREST – KIA, Cheops ID#'s unknown

Pte. FORREST, Christopher Frank 431 - ca 1914 - Not ID'd in Cheops photo2nd Lt. HENDERSON - SMITH, George Holt 618 - ca 1914 - Not ID'd in Cheops photo


"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.

John Edward HILL - RTA - ID# Not yet identified

HILL_John Edward 437 - 01, c 1914- ex Judy PurkissJohn 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.

poppy2 Crispin Kenworthy BATTYE - KIA - ID# 499

Pte. BATTYE, Crispin Kenworthy - Cheops Pyramid 10 Jan 1915Crispin 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.

poppy2 Frank Henry Burton ADCOCK (394) - KIA - ID# 343

poppy2 Frederick Brenchley ADCOCK (1044) - KIA - ID# 341

Pte. ADCOCK, Frank Henry Burton 343 - Cheops Pyramid 10 Jan 1915

Pte. ADCOCK, Frederick Brenchley - Cheops Pyramid 10 Jan 1915

 


"The War will involve much suffering"