Rank: Private
Service Number: 1155
Place of Birth: Western Australia (2 March 1896)
Address: Sewell St, East Fremantle
Next of Kin: Grandmother, Mrs Mary Ann Jarvis
Enlistment Date: 21 June 1915
Unit Name: 10th Light Horse Regiment
Age at Embarkation: 19
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Farm hand
Returned: 2 January 1919
Rank: Private
Service Number: 3113
Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia
Address: 84 Duke St (180 Duke St WWI), East Fremantle, Western Australia.
Next of Kin: Father, Spencer Charles Allbeury (38 Sewell Street(WW1: 88), East Fremantle)
Enlistment Date: 22 November 1916
Unit Name: 46th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Age at Embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Printers Devil
His Father was a resident of 38 Sewell Street.
1911 - 1916: Allbeury, Charles or Albury
1918 - 1921: Allbeury, Spencer C.
38 Sewell St
84 Duke St
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 6126
Place of Birth: Belfast, Ireland
Address: Claremont, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Matilda Gourley
Enlistment Date: 8 December 1915
Unit Name: 16th Battalion, 19th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 32
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Shipwright
Date of Death: 14 April 1959
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 4794
Place of Birth: Perth Western Australia
Address: Norseman, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Anne Glasson
Enlistment Date: 28 December 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 33
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2374
Place of Birth: Geelong
Address: 74 Hubble St(WW1: 130), East Fremantle
Next of Kin: Sister, Mrs Hariet Moss
Enlistment Date: 8 May 1915
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 25
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Railway employee
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
15/4/1917 Received bullet wounds on his left leg and hand. He then got captured and became a prisoner of War at Somme, France.
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 128
Place of Birth: East Fremantle, Western Australia
Address: Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Margaret Rooke
Enlistment Date: 15 January 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion, A Company
Age embarkation: 21
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer/Blacksmith
Virtual War Memorial Australia: Sern 128 E. J. Gibson Fremantle Cemetery Graham Padget
Half brother Theodore Rooke (left). Edward James Gibson (Right). (reference)
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 6082
Place of Birth: Mount Gambier South Australia
Address: 40 Curedale Street, Beaconsfield, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Larenia Gertrude Gates
Enlistment Date: 20 July 1916
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 33
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Engine driver
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 809
Place of Birth: Carlisle, Western Australia
Address:
Next of Kin: Father, J Fulton
Enlistment Date: 31 August 1914
Unit Name: 12th Battalion, G Company
Age embarkation: 25
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Horse driver
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 6124
Place of Birth: Canning Road, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Address: Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Jane Fordham
Enlistment Date: 3 April 1916
Unit Name: 16th Battalion, 19th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Clerk
Date of Death: 7 February 1917
Place of Burial: Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot V, Row A, Grave No. 15), France
Links: -
Parents, Charles Edmund and Jane Fordham, lived at 79 George Street.
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2698
Place of Birth: Kedena, South Australia
Address: Fremantle PO, Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Maud Mary Foley
Enlistment Date: 7 August 1917
Unit Name: February 1918 Reinforcements
Age embarkation: 31
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Railway employee
Date of Death: 6 January 1965
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2013
Place of Birth: Glen Innes, New South Wales
Address: Redfern, New South Wales
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Mary Fletcher
Enlistment Date: 17 December 1916
Unit Name: December 1916 Reinforcements
Age embarkation: 31
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: 22 November 1949
Place of Burial: Rookwood Necropolis
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 5458
Place of Birth: Fremantle, Western Australia
Address: Beach St, Fremantle
Next of Kin: Father, John Murray
Enlistment Date: 29 April 1916
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 22
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Baker
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1447
Place of Birth:
Address:
Next of Kin: Father, William Obre Myers
Enlistment Date: 18 September 1914
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 18
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Bushman
Date of Death: 25 December 1973
Place of Burial: Karrakatta Cemetery
Links: -
Family/military connections
MYERS, Noel Norbert Obre, Private, 28th Battalion — Streets of East Freo
Sgt Myers Oswald Louis of 10th Light Horse.
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 4782
Place of Birth: East Guildford
Address: Fremantle, Western Australia.
Next of Kin: William Obre Myers, 91 Packenham Street (WW1), Fremantle WA
Enlistment Date: 23 February 1916
Unit Name: 28th Battalion
Age embarkation: 18 (16 years old)
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Farm Hand
Date of Death: 03 November 1916
Place of Burial: France
Note: Name appears twice on the Roll of Honour.
28th Battalion Private Noel Norbert Obre Myers was the beloved but headstrong second son of William and Catherine nee Betts, who lived at ‘Wentworth’, Preston Point Road and, later, ‘Cantilew’, on Canning Road (now Highway), East Fremantle.
His name appears on the East Fremantle Honour Roll twice – once as N N O Myers and once as N O E L Myers. There is a star against the latter as he was killed in heavy fighting in the Battle of Flers between 3-5 November 1916, just a few dozen hours after he’d joined his unit in France.
First reported missing in action on 5 November, the agony of his parents began.
It wasn’t until May 1917 they finally received word their boy had been killed in action the previous November.
Noel, desperate to do his bit, had lied on enlistment on 16 February 1916. He said he was an 18 year old, Eneabba-born farmhand when, in reality, he was born in East Guildford, or Woodbridge, on 5 October 1899, and, barely 16, was just a schoolboy, still attending Fremantle Boys’ School.
His father explained, in his Roll of Honour Circular, that they hadn’t wanted him to go, but the stubborn lad threatened to stow away if they refused him permission, so they gave it under duress. In Salisbury, England, his father wrote, Noel heard his aunt had spoken to General Birdwood in an effort to stop him from going to the front, so instead, Noel applied to go away immediately.
He left England on 14 October 1916, a week after his 17th birthday, and reached Etaples in France two days later. On 28 October he began the journey to his unit, which he joined on 1 November, as unrelenting, drenching rain, and the passage of troops, horses and artillery churned the ground to sucking mud, and one of the coldest winters ever recorded in France descended.
Likely cut to ribbons in the hail of shrapnel and withering machine gun fire that happened at Flers, Noel lay in the frozen mud and blood of the Somme until the thaw began and, on 26 March 1917 he was found, identified from the paybook in his pocket, and buried in the nearest ground - between the trenches known as The Maze and Blue Cut, north of Guidecourt.
And there he still lies as, later, when the Graves Registration Unit moved through looking for these hastily-buried bodies, Noel’s was unable to be recovered. His name appears, just once, on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
Researched and written by Shannon Lovelady for www.streetsofeastfreo
Family/military connections
Sgt Myers Oswald Louis of 10th Light Horse.
MYERS, Lancelot Aloysius Obre, Private, 11th Battalion — Streets of East Freo
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 5445
Place of Birth: Beechworth, Victoria
Address: Meekatharra, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Mr J Osborne
Enlistment Date: 25 January 1916
Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 17th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 25
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Blacksmith's striker
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1889
Place of Birth:
Address: Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Emily Jane Petersen
Enlistment Date: 17 March 1916
Unit Name: 44th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 38
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Fisherman
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 579
Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria
Address:
Next of Kin: Father, Alfred Pitchford
Enlistment Date: 24 September 1914
Unit Name: 16th Battalion, E Company
Age embarkation: 21
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Butcher
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2635
Place of Birth: South Melbourne, Victoria
Address:
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Eva Mary Poat
Enlistment Date: 22 June 1915
Unit Name: 12th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 32
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death:
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 3910
Place of Birth: Ballarat, Victoria
Address: 48 Ellen Street(WW1), Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Charles Podger
Enlistment Date: 29 November 1915
Unit Name: 28th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 24
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Shunter
Date of Death: -
Place of Burial: -
Links: -
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 2691
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria
Address: 82 King Street(WW1: 158), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Father, Fred Preston
Enlistment Date: 21 June 1915
Unit Name: 16th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Age embarkation: 21
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Labourer
Date of Death: 20 December 1917
Place of Burial: Mount Olivet Methodist Cemetery
White Oak, Garrard County, Kentucky, USA
Links: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125206364/henry-preston
1917 Mr. and Mrs. F. Preston, of 158 King-street, East Fremantle, have received word that their son, Private F. H. Preston (Mick) is in the Bethnal Green Hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds in the legs. Private Preston saw service at Gallipoli. (reference)
1912 - 1932: Preston, Frederick
1933 - 1944: Preston, Miss F.
